The Law and the Lady

Valeria Woodville''s first act as a married woman is to sign her name in the marriage register incorrectly, and this slip is followed by the gradual disclosure of a series of secrets about her husband''s earlier life, each of which leads on to another set of questions and enigmas. Her discoveries prompt her to defy her husband''s authority, to take the law into into a labyrinthine maze of false cl...