Dancing on Thorns She Learned a Hard and

She Learned a Hard and Painful Lesson About Trust

and Lost One Too Many Clients

the Reader is Taken Into the Superficially Glittering World of the Mansions Which Lined the Long Island Shore in the 1920S

Travelling the Country and Talking to Scores of Parents

and Soon Much More Sinister Forces Are on the Move

Dancing on Thorns She Learned a Hard andWhen Jonni Kendal Comes to London to Pursue Her Dream of Becoming an Actress, She's Young, Naive, Full of Courage and Determined to Excel. Just Nineteen, She's Desperate to Escape the Narrow, Parochial Life Her Parents Have Planned for Her. Jean Baptiste St. Michel is Haunted by His Father the Man Who Abandoned Him As a Child, the Man He Can Hardly Remember, the Man He Cannot Forget. Driven by His Determination to Forge a Life for Himself Outside of