Bøker av James Walter Lee

In 1963, Lucius Cook, an eleven-year-old orphan, comes to live with a lawyer, Kenneth Crane, and his family at their stately Victorian home in the affluent suburbs of Hartford, Connecticut. Quiet and precocious, Lucius is in awe of his surroundings. He discovers he shares Mr. Crane's creative passion for photography. The Crane's clever daughter, Beatrice, keeps Lucius on his toes, while the lawyer's stunning and aloof wife, Eleanor, captivates him. As time passes, his curiosity for Eleanor, twenty years his senior, grows from spellbound boyhood fascination to a young man's deep consuming desire. Charmed by amorous illusions, love and happiness elude Lucius, and he wonders if he will ever know what they truly mean.

When college graduate Nick Evers meets his father's business associate, Elizabeth Bach, it's no schoolboy crush. Nor is it mere sexual desire. He's smitten by the stunning, mature, career-driven woman, and he knows to his bones that he has to have her. She has no time for boys, but no one has ever pursued her to the degree Nick has. He'll even follow her to Spain to convince her he's the one for her. Sure, he's handsome and charming, tall and athletic, and the sex could be spectacular, but he's too young for her. His wealthy and influential father, with his own infatuation for her, could be a much bigger problem. Having a relationship with his son could destroy a career she's fought long and hard to achieve.