The Reef

In this masterly psychological novel, Edith Wharton crafts a gripping drama of love, betrayal, and moral consequence. Journeying to a French chateau to wed his widowed first love, Anna Leath, diplomat George Darrow is stunned to find that his future stepson is engaged to Sophy Viner--a young woman with whom Darrow shared a brief, secret affair in Paris. As hidden truths emerge, their fragile happiness strikes a perilous reef of guilt and passion.