The marriage of young Margaret and middle-aged widower Edward de Salis promised to be a happy union of “May and December.” The spouses were separated by an abyss of years, but this was not the reason why their hopes for a cloudless family life were crushed. Everything collapsed when an eighteen-year-old American woman decided to accompany her husband to the Irish estate of Cashelmaru, the family nest of the de Salises. In Ireland, Margaret faced difficult trials, and she inevitably found herself drawn into the whirlpool of irreconcilable contradictions tearing apart the large aristocratic de Salis family... The destinies of three generations pass before the eyes of the reader in a gripping drama that inevitably moves towards murder and retribution. It unfolds against the backdrop of historical events of the second half of the 19th century. The family saga, shown through the prism of half a century of history, belongs to the pen of the master of great prose Susan Hovac, whose works have yet to be discovered by Russian readers. For the first time in Russian!