The Gilded Venom

In the gaslit drawing rooms of the Duchy of Aurland, Cécile Bandy-Freeman endures her husband's flagrant infidelity and the ruthless legal machinery that treats her as chattel. When Auguste Freeman and his mistress Marguerite Newton plot to confine her, she dons the mask of a delicate wife to exact a perfect, poisonous revenge. Inspired by Balzac's anatomy of envy, this is a story where the desire to annihilate eclipses all gain, leaving only ruin.