Set 100 years ago in Boston, 'Fortune's Rocks' is a classic of literary and romantic storytelling. Fourteen-year-old Olympic Biddeford is spending the summer with her parents at their seasonal house at Fortune's Rocks. Her father handles her education himself and is in fact a publisher of mildly liberal literature.
An author Olympic's father admires, John Haskell, who also practises as a physician, comes to visit the house. Forty years old, married with four children, he nonetheless embarks on an affair with the adolescent girl. They have a swift, passionate summer, torn apart when they are discovered together during Olympic's 15th birthday party. She is taken back to Boston, her parents are mortified and remove themselves from society.
When Olympic is delivered of a baby boy nine months later, he is taken from her and she finds herself in exile at a ladies college and then as a governess. She decides she must get her child back, which means returning to Fortune's Rocks . . .
