Fortune’s Rocks
Author: Anita Shreve
14-year-old Olympia Biddeford is spending the summer with her parents at Fortune’s Rocks. She is swiftly despatched to Boston when it’s discovered she has embarked on an affair with a friend of her father’s, but Olympia is already pregnant…..Read More
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