Susan Buffum

Bolt's Landing Susan Buffum

Artist Jesse Oakes returns to the Adirondacks where he grew up after the death of his actress wife in California. Disillusioned by the lifestyle he'd led in LA, he opens a gallery on Bolt Lake, joins the local hockey team, and lives a quiet life until wealthy society scion Sebastian Archer commissions him to paint a portrait of his youngest daughter upon her engagement to rich playboy Jared Rhys-Bowen. Archer's arranged the marriages of all his children to the rich sons and daughters of his business associates, thereby increasing his own fortunes. The Archers do not marry for love they marry for money, Jesse soon finds out as he gets to know the unhappy subject of the portrait he's painting. He falls in love with Ellisan Archer, but soon the horror of her life, shielded by her family and generous payouts of cash to buy silence, is unveiled. Jesse's love offers her a lifeline out of the nightmare she's ensnared in, but will she find the strength to grasp it? Can he save her before it's too late?