![]() Mariana is a young widow who is grieving her late husband Sebastian, who drowned a year ago. In Part I, the book flashes back to a few days prior. She is determined to find a way to prove it. The Prologue introduces Mariana, who is certain that a man named Edward Fosca has murdered two people. However, Mariana manages to fight Zoe off, and Zoe ends up arrested and taken to a psychiatric facility. ![]() The plan was to involve Mariana in an investigation into a series of murders (all committed by Zoe), frame Fosca and finally kill Mariana. After his accident, Zoe decided to continue with his plan of murdering Mariana (to get her fortune). ![]() Zoe had been lovers with Sebastian, who married Mariana for money. In the end, it's revealed that Zoe is the killer. ![]() Tara had been one of the Maidens and soon two more of the women are found dead. Mariana gets drawn into investigating Fosca as well as the Maidens, a cult-like group of women who idolize Fosca. Zoe suspects Edward Fosca, a handsome and popular professor who Tara had been sleeping with. She goes to visit her niece Zoe at Cambridge after Zoe's friend Tara is found murdered. The one-paragraph version: Mariana is a young widow whose husband Sebastian died in a swimming accident last year. ![]()
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