Fortune's Rocks

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Fortune's Rocks
First edition cover
Author	Anita Shreve
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Romance novel
Publisher	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date	December 2, 1999
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	453 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0316781010
Followed by	Sea Glass

Fortune's Rocks is a 1999 romance novel by bestselling author Anita Shreve. It is chronologically the first novel in Shreve's trilogy to be set in a large beach house on the New Hampshire coast that used to be a convent. It is followed by Sea Glass and The Pilot's Wife.

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In the summer of 1899, Olympia Biddeford, a privileged, intelligent and confident fifteen year old who is vacationing with her family at Fortune's Rocks, falls in love with a married 41-year-old doctor and journalist, John Haskell. Their passionate affair, and subsequent discovery, produces a son and leads to far-reaching consequences that span several decades.