The Burning Secret (9786258141733)

While being treated for asthma at a country spa, an American diplomat's lonely twelve-year-old son is befriended and infatuated by a suave, mysterious baron. But soon his adored friend heartlessly brushes him aside and turns his seductive attentions to his mother. The boy's jealousy and feelings of betrayal become uncontrollable. The story is set in Austria in the 1920s.