"Story of three women married in succession to the same man--a charismatic opportunist named Ken Kimble"--Cover.

Six months after Lanie Jacobs' husband's death, it's hard to imagine anything could deepen her sense of pain and loss. But then Lanie discovers she isn't the only one grieving. A serial adulterer, he left behind several other women who, like Lanie, each believe she was his legally wedded wife. Desperate to make a fresh start, Lanie impulsively takes a job at the family-run Capriotti Winery. With no real family of her own, she's bewildered by how quickly...

Once the countess of Riverdale, widowed Viola decides to run off with Marcel, the Marquess of Dorchester, but they soon find themselves victims of the age's ideas of respectability.

Looking back now, there were always red flags - signs that my father was not the man we thought he was...his absences on holidays, his secrecy, and the constant excuses that took him out of town. It's human nature to trust people we love. But that's what makes my father's betrayal so heinous. He took advantage of the trust that the people who loved him had invested in him. It wasn't simply infidelity. No, my father's deceit was truly sociopathic....