This Side of Innocence Author:Taylor Caldwell The scene is up-state New York. The novel begins in 1868 and concludes almost 20 years later.
It is the story of two vital, strong-willed, unscrupulous and passionate people-who met their match in each other, and whose temptuous mating smashed the orderly pattern of their families' lives, and, to a degree, that of the community.