Loss Of Innocence Av Davi Patterson, Richard North Patterson

<p><b>June, 1968.</b></p><p>America is in a state of turbulence, engulfed in civil unrest and uncertainty. Yet for Whitney Dane - spending the summer of her twenty-second year on Martha''s Vineyard - life could not be safer, nor the future more certain. </p><p>Educated at Wheaton, soon to be married, and the youngest daughter of the patrician Dane family, Whitney has everything she has ever wanted, and is everything her all-powerful and doting father, Charles Dane, wants her to be. </p><p>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. </p><p>As Ben''s presence begins to awaken independence within Whitney, it also brings deep-rooted Dane tensions to a dangerous head. And soon Whitney''s set-in-stone future becomes far from satisfactory, and her picture-perfect family far from pretty. </p>