" Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks; and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.... The people of Fall River, Massachusetts, fear me. Perhaps rightfully so. I remain a suspect in the brutal deaths of my father and his second wife despite the verdict of innocence at my trial. With our inheritance, my sister, Emma, and I have taken up residence in Maplecroft, a mansion near the sea and far from gossip...

"Marianna de Greville is only twenty years old. But she has been given a life sentence in prison for murder. After an outbreak of uncontrollable rage. Yet, one day, the unimaginable occurs. A door opens. She is offered a conditional release ... but the price to be paid ,atonement, is terrifying." --