Charmian came to her uncle's house as a small child who had just lost her mother. The mother's brother was widowed and lived alone with his daughter, Rachel, who immediately hated her sister. Charmian was sixteen when her cousin forced her to go on a date, which she had arranged for a guy who worked as a gardener on their estate. As it turned out, Rachel set all this up to prove to her father that Charmian was just a whore. And the gardener was then fired from his job in disgrace. As an adult, Charmian often wondered what happened to the guy who was deprived of a piece of bread at Rachel’s whim. But she could not even imagine what reality would turn out to be...