About This Book
A young woman discovers her lover bound and wounded and nurses him back to health, setting off an investigation that unravels family secrets, social accusations, and competing plots. The narrative moves through recognition, disgrace, legal and private confrontations, and divided revelations that gradually expose motives and conspirators. Interviews, counterplots, and a deus ex machina reveal partial truths that lead to revenge and eventual resolution. Themes of loyalty, reputation, and the contrast between outward respectability and the seamy underside of social life run through the unfolding mystery, which concludes with reconciliations and the lovers' reunion.