"'I am trapped,' she screamed silently, no one in the room hearing her inner pleas. 'I am trapped in a cage of poverty and mediocrity and If I don't get out I will die.' Only the sound of her typewriter could be heard that night echoing throughout the shack that she had called home. Grace Metalious wrote the stories that no one dared to write before that time. A midcentury tale of small-town life in New England to the hustle and bustle of New York City and to the unforgiving film studios of Hollywood, her story unfolds. Her infamous novel Peyton Place catapulted her from obscurity to the top of the literary world. This is a classic scenario where art imitates life and so does this novel. The young author coping with literary and financial success, without realizing it creates her own Peyton Place where she herself had to reside. The seasons of Grace is a fictional account based on the author's life; sometimes dark, sometimes shocking, but always authentic"--Back cover.

On what is supposed to be a quiet long weekend inNew Hampshire, Deputy U.S. Marshal Mackenzie Stewartis viciously attacked at the lakefront cottage of her friend,federal judge Bernadette Peacham. Mac fends off herattacker, but he manages to escape. Everything suggestshe's a deranged drifter—until FBI special agentAndrew Rook arrives. With Rook, Mac broke her own rule not to get involvedwith anyone in law enforcement, but she knows he isn'tup from Washington, D.C., to set things straight betweenthem. He's on a case. As the hunt for the mysterious attacker continues, the casetakes an unexpected turn when Mac and Rook return toWashington and find Bernadette's ex-husband, a powerfulattorney, shot to death. Then Bernadette disappears, andMac and Rook realize the stakes are higher than eitherhad imagined, and a master criminal with nothing left tolose is prepared to gamble everything.