"Sanctuary" by Edith Wharton follows Kate Orme as her wedding is fast approaching. Yet when she learns about her husband's secret, her bliss begins to crumble, and the fear or bringing a child into the world with the man she's about to marry begins to set it. When she eventually gives birth, she's determined to raise her son as an upstanding man, but some inherited traits die hard and Kate's efforts may have been in vain.