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A light in the window

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1948)

SubgenreClassic Romance
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
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SettingContemporary

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ViolenceNot rated
Sexual contentModerate
LanguageNot rated

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INNOCENT LOVE Swept up in a whirlwind courtship and a hasty wedding to handsome Court Wayne, Ricky felt nothing could possibly go wrong for two people so much in love. But then Court was shipped off to fight the Germans, and the powerful Wayne family insisted she come to live with them... SINISTER PREY A small-town girl, Ricky did not feel at home in the Waynes' posh Fifth Avenue establishment, or at ease with Court's coldly sophisticated mother. She sensed with a chill of foreboding the contempt and bitter resentment that ran just beneath the polished surface of their lives. But she could not know the depths of their hatred, or the lengths to which they would go to break up her marriage - even if it meant destroying her in the process...