Beguiling and richly rewarding... This story of passion and scandal at the end of the last century is a breathtaking,highly entertaining novel Olympia may well be the most alluring female since Nabokov's Lolita No praise is too high for Fortune's Rocks. The book will take hold of you and not let go until the last word.

In the richest, most compelling novel yet by the author of the #1 international bestseller The Pilot's Wife, a spirited young woman from a prominent New England family falls into a passionate, illicit affair with an older man--with cataclysmic results.