It begins as a
fairytale romance-a shipboard meeting in 1880 between vivacious Southern
belle Florence Chandler and handsome English cotton broker James
Maybrick. Courtship and a lavish wedding soon follow, and the couple
settles into an affluent Liverpool suburb.
From the first, their marriage is doomed by lies. Florie, hardly the heiress her scheming mother portrayed, is treated as an outsider by fashionable English society. James's secrets are infinitely darker-he has a mistress, an arsenic addiction, and a vicious temper. But Florie has no inkling of her husband's depravity until she discovers his diary-and in it, a litany of bloody deeds.
From the first, their marriage is doomed by lies. Florie, hardly the heiress her scheming mother portrayed, is treated as an outsider by fashionable English society. James's secrets are infinitely darker-he has a mistress, an arsenic addiction, and a vicious temper. But Florie has no inkling of her husband's depravity until she discovers his diary-and in it, a litany of bloody deeds.
I thought this was a wonderful book. I flew through reading it because
it kept me intrigued the entire time. I loved the romance turning into
mystery, betrayal and left you wanting more.
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