The Scarlet Letters

A New York Times –bestselling author puts a modern twist on the Nathaniel Hawthorne classic with this novel of wealthy 1950s society.   The year is 1953, and the coastal village of Glenville, on the opulent north shore of Long Island, is shaken by scandal. Ambrose Vollard, the managing partner of a prestigious Wall Street law firm, gets word of an alleged affair in his family. Most astonishing, the adulterer is Rodman Jessup, Vollard’s son-in-law, junior partner, and most likely successor.