Loss of Innocence
Yet for Whitney Dane - spending the summer of her twenty-first year on Maratha's Vineyard,soon to be married and the youngest daughter of the patrician Dane family - life could not be safer,nor the future more certain.Whitney has everything she has ever wanted,and is everything her all- powerful and doting father,Charles Dane,wants her to be. But the Vineyard's still waters are disturbed by the appearance of Benjamin Blaine.An underprivileged,yet fiercely ambitious and charismatic young man,Blaine is a force of nature neither Whitney nor her family could have prepared for. As Ben's prences begins to awaken independence within Whitney,it also brings deep-rooted Dane tensions to a dangerous head.And soon Whitney's guilded future becomes far from certain,and her picture-perfect family far from pretty.
