A provincial Irish girl is getting married. On the eve of the wedding, she is confidentially informed that it was not love that prompted her chosen one to go to the crown. But is it? Or maybe everything can be explained by the machinations of an insidious rival? Throughout the novel, the heroine is tormented by painful doubts. She either reaches the heights of bliss, then falls into the abyss of bitter disappointment, ardent passion gives way to burning hatred. Until the last page it is unclear how the “love triangle theorem” will be solved. For a wide range of readers.