By John P. Marquand
As a tender boy, Tom Michael walked along with his father, Alfred, alongside the streets of Michael’s Harbor, Massachusetts, and gazed around the water on the stately mansions on caution Hill. Imagining the lives of the households inside of these majestic houses was once an stress-free distraction, a loved bond among father and son.
Years later, after the surprising tragedy of his father’s suicide, Tom holds the reminiscence of these walks expensive. whilst he meets and falls in love with Marianne Jellett, daughter of the self-made millionaire Grafton Jellett, he's overjoyed to grasp one among caution Hill’s so much famous households. he's completely unprepared for the soreness that Marianne will reason him, and for the invention of a connection among the ruthless Grafton and his father’s death.
A captivating story of ardour, strength, and vengeance, Warning Hill was the 1st of John P. Marquand’s novels to be set within the stratified New England panorama that outlined his mythical career.
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