Geraldine Seagrave and her brother grow up in a vast New York house with fifteen servants and no parents, ruled only by guardians and a patient governess. Coming into her fortune, Geraldine plunges into society and discovers the inherited craving that threatens to destroy her, while Jack Duane, a man with his own weaknesses, comes to love her.
A society melodrama from Chambers that takes alcoholism seriously, unusual for 1909. Download the free EPUB.