Carnal Innocence

Fame has taken its toll on classical violinist Caroline Waverly, whose grueling tour climaxed in an all-too-public breakup with the conductor who was her lover. Now Caroline, tightly coiled and coolly reserved, has come back to peaceful Innocence, Mississippi. She has inherited her grandparents' home, a beautiful place where she spent warmly-remembered summers as a child. But Innocence has been visited by brutal, unsolved murders, and Caroline wonders if she is putting her life at risk when she falls for smooth-talking charmer Tucker Longstreet, whose seductive ways slowly make her set caution aside. A beautiful summer interlude could turn to much more - or could stir a killer's crazed dreams. Carnal Innocence is a classic novel, full of taut suspense and Southern atmosphere.