adultery

In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.

High school junior Jordan MacKenzie finds her ordinary life spinning out of control when her father, a predictable optometrist she has been living with since her parents' divorce, suddenly steps out of character and becomes involved with a married woman.

In seventeenth-century New England, Hester Prynne is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" as the symbol of the sin she had committed.

Edna Pontellier, a Victorian-era wife and mother is awakened to the full force on her desire for love and freedom when she becomes enamored with Robert LeBrun, a young man she meets while on vacation.

When Maximilian Ophulus is murdered by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the clown, authorities uncover a dangerous link between the murderer and the victim's daughter.

Traces Lincoln's rise in the political arena in Illinois and describes how the death of a blacksmith emerged into a murder trial that helped launch Lincoln's bid for the Presidency.

In Dublin, during a snowstorm, a young woman recalls the events surrounding an affair that changed her life and gave her her twelve-year-old daughter, Evie.

Classic tale about Hester Prynne, her lover, their child, and Hester's husband, and the effect of sin on the mind and spirit of these characters.

The story of Jude Fawley, an impoverished stonemason who aspires to the ministry and fails to fulfill the opposite expectations of the two women he loves in Victorian society.