Virginia Marbalestier rose from an inpoverished California childhood to become a sucessful textile designer, mistress of a English Tudor manor, wife of a English husband, and mother of an adorable six-year-old girl. Piece by piece she'd given herself away to a husband who demanded more , until she is forced to reexamine her life-her lies, her dreams, her daily betrayals, and her ultimate sin-submission.
Virginia is a talented designer. Her husband is a poer in industry. Her daughter is a joy. Her world is a tightly woven fabric of home and career - until the hysterical Frances enters her life. Through Frances, Virginia picks up the missing threads of her own identity - realizing at last that she has unwittingly betrayed herself through the sin of submission to a husband she no longer loves.
