The Devil Who Kisses My Instep

Maria, who had been enduring an unhappy marriage beside a sadistic husband, receives unexpected news. Lowell—her half-brother with a significant age gap, whom Maria had personally taught and raised—is returning from the battlefield. The Lowell who returned was neither the child Maria remembered nor an immature boy. He had become a man in every sense of the word. “I have looked forward to the day I would meet you again.” With Lowell's appearance, cracks begin to form within the House of Marquess Radford, which appeared peaceful on the surface. “My Maria, beautiful as an angel.” Where will the end be for this relationship that should never have begun? --- Reverse Grooming, Infidelity. ...