In 1907, in the midst of the Gilded Age of Paris society, novelist Edith Wharton writes of grand love affairs, though she has yet to experience her own. Her marriage is more platonic than passionate and her closest relationship is with her literary secretary, Anna Bahlmann. Then Edith meets dashing journalist Morton Fullerton, and her life is at last opened to the world of the sensual. But in yielding to the temptation of their illicit liaison, Edith could lose everything else she holds dear...
