Ceremony of the Innocent Author:Taylor Caldwell From a life of servitude in a small PA town, Ellen Watson is catapulted into a life she was never prepared to live - a life she never quite believes herself worthy of. As the bride of Jeremy Porter, scion of a wealthy eastern family, she enters into a world of politics, wealth, and power, a world where hypocrisy and ruthlessness reign. Against... more » the background of a crumbling American Dream, as a nation comes fully of age and faces the 1st World War, Ellen loses the one man who can protect her... and a country loses the man who perhaps could have saved it from the raw and brutal ambition of the sons of Cain.« less