Sanctuary (Pine Street Books) (edition 2001)

A very entertaining psychological drama played out first between the main character, Kate Peyton, and her fiance and then later between mother and son. Kate becomes aware before her marriage of a sinister weakness in her fiance and yet marries him so that she will be able to guard any of his progeny against a similar weakness. Left a widow early, she zealously devotes her life to instilling the principles in her son she deems necessary to ward off this weakness of character which she is afraid her son has inherited. The time comes when Kate is forced to sit back and await her son's decision while he agonizes alone with a moral crisis in his own life. An interesting plot written with the skill of a master story-teller. ( )