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On a beach in New Hampshire at the turn of the last century, a young woman is drawn into a rocky, disastrous passage to adulthood. Olympia Biddeford is the only child of a prominent Boston couple-a precocious and well-educated daughter, alive with ideas and flush with the first stirrings of maturity. Her summer at the family's vacation home in Fortune's Rocks is transformed by the arrival of a doctor, a friend of her father's, whose new book about mill-town laborers has caused a sensation. Olympia is captivated by his thinking, his stature, and his drive to do right-even as she is overwhelmed for the first time by irresistible sexual desire. She and the doctor-a married man, a father, and nearly three times her age-come together in an unthinkable, torturous, hopelessly passionate affair. Throwing aside propriety and self-preservation, Olympia plunges forward with cataclysmic results that are the price of straying in an unforgiving era. Olympia is cast out of the world she knows, ...and Fortune's Rocks is the story of her determination to reinvent her broken life-and claim the one thing she finds she cannot live without.

Melissa Hughes' career began in radio, where she was a staff announcer, DJ, and voice-over artist. Working in England for many years, she starred in the BBC Radio drama Trouble Brewing, appeared in numerous plays, and created the screams for the character of Lois Lane, as well as other voices in the film Superman.

Anita Shreve is the critically acclaimed author of more than a dozen novels, including Body Surfing; The Pilot's Wife, which was a selection of Oprah's Book Club; and The Weight of Water, which was a finalist for England's Orange Prize. In 1998 she received the New England Book Award for Fiction. Her novels have sold more than six million copies and have been translated into thirty-six languages. She began writing fiction while working as a high school teacher and then became a journalist. Withe the publication of her first novel, Eden Close, she gave up journalism to write fiction full time.