Love’s Shadow

“Don’t make me late at the office!” Bruce pleads over breakfast, while his wife Edith quietly learns to accept the little injustices of marriage. By the time he’s gone, she has looked in the mirror and decided she’s beginning to look bored.

In a neat new flat in Knightsbridge, Edith’s days are brightened by her friend Hyacinth Verney: beautiful, wealthy, and so gifted at inspiring devotion that even her companion watches her with a wary eye. Hyacinth insists she’ll never fall in love again—but Anne Yeo suspects the old restlessness is returning, and a certain Cecil Reeve has caught Hyacinth’s attention. As Edith longs for romance beyond her routine and Hyacinth gathers admirers around her, affection, flirtation and friendship begin to tangle. What, exactly, is Hyacinth trying to escape—and who will be caught up in her next “attack”?

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