About the book: 2013 / A book that at one time caused a sensation, almost a scandal. America of the “golden” post-war years. Beautiful, rich, passionate Grace Caldwell Tate is suffocating in the atmosphere of snobbery, hypocrisy and pharisaism that reigns in a small provincial town, where every breath of freedom is cruelly punished. Trying to defend her right to love, Grace decides to take a desperate act. But what is the price of her fleeting happiness??