In May 1832, in Newport, Rhode Island, a Methodist minister named Ephraim K. Avery was tried for the murder of a twenty-nine-year-old mill worker, Sarah Marie Cornell. It was the first time a clergyman had ever been tried for murder in the United Sta...
Forty-two-year-old Alex Smithson finds her comfortable life threatened by prospects of a legal battle within her husband's wealthy family, as well as by memories of the past, the disaster of a youthful affair, and an old love...