![]() ![]() A more mature and wiser Allison realizes that she could never find true happiness by destroying Lewis' marriage. The crisis over, Mike is reinstated at the school, Selena is reunited with Lars, and Ted is reconciled with Raffaella when he finally stands up to his mother. Allison and Lewis are present when Connie publicly stands by her daughter and denounces Roberta Carter as a hypocritical bigot. ![]() ![]() Events come to a head when a town meeting is called to discuss Rossi's defense of the controversial novel. Emotionally upset, Raffaella races to the ski slopes and nearly causes herself to have a miscarriage. Meanwhile, Roberta has finally succeeded in driving her daughter-in-law out of the house. Allison's mother, Connie, shocked by her daughter's exposé of the town's citizens, becomes enraged when her husband, school principal Mike Rossi, is fired because he refuses to remove the novel from the school library. Hounded by her lurid past, Selena Cross is unable to face her lover, ski instructor Lars Hedlom. ![]() When Selena tells her boyfriend what happened between her and her stepfather, she says 'His name wasnt Lucas. She has given the real people fictitious names in her book and Selenas stepfather is called Lucas in it. When the novel is published, many townspeople are outraged, particularly Roberta Carter, a domineering and snobbish woman determined to wreck her son Ted's marriage to his Italian-born wife, Raffaella. In this sequel, Allison writes a book based on her experiences in the town which were depicted in Peyton Place (1957). Young Allison MacKenzie, who is called to New York for the final editing of her first novel (a thinly disguised case history of the residents of her hometown of Peyton Place), falls in love with her publisher, Lewis Jackman, an older married man. ![]()
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