adultery

Hester Prynne, condemned by Puritan law to wear the scarlet letter "A" for adultress, endures her ostracism with dignity, while her lover is tormented by the burden of an unexposed sin.

A nineteenth-century French woman pursues her romantic dreams through a series of lovers.

Tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young Puritan woman who has violated the laws of Colonial Boston. As punishment she is ordered to wear the Scarlet Letter of an adulterer for the rest of her life.

"Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home--a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse--butJohn's not here. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb..."--Provided by publisher.

Margaret Crane's life falls apart when she learns that Adam, her husband of almost twenty years, is having an extra-marital affair, and her misery is compounded by the rift that occurs between her and Nina, an orphaned cousin raised by the Cranes, over Nina's relationship with a married man.

Hadley St. Clair and Sam Bennett are teenagers caught up in the grip of their mutual attraction--but adultery, family secrets, and betrayal threaten to drive them apart.

Anna Benz, an American woman in her thirties, lives in comfort and affluence with her Swiss banker husband and their three young children in a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Despite the tranquility and order of her domestic existence, Anna is falling apart. In an effort to restart her life, she turns to Jungian analysis, German language classes, and a series of extramarital affair, whose consequences she cannot foretell.

Told in alternating voices, Jodi and Todd's marriage has reached a violent dissolution due to jealousy, lies, and infidelity.

Presents an abridged retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel "The Scarlet Letter," in which Hester Prynne, a wife and mother in seventeenth-century New England, is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" after being judged guilty of adultery.