Kate Croy's mother was born into wealth and privilege but abandoned it to marry a penniless opium addict, Kate's father. After her mother's death, Kate is offered a chance to reclaim her family's legacy, but only if she cuts ties with her father and her lover, journalist Merton Densher. Kate agrees, and befriends Milly Theale, a wealthy American on a Grand Tour. When Merton crashes a party they're attending, Milly becomes interested in him. Kate concocts a plan to keep both Merton and her new inheritance, but things don't go as planned.
The Wings of the Dove
Caught between two worlds, a woman must choose between her life of luxury with her aunt and her passion for a journalist, while finding an unexpected sense of comfort in a friendship with an American heiress who harbors a secret attraction to her lover, adding a poignant layer as the heiress stru...
