Envy's Perfect Poison

In the patriarchal society of 1980s New Albion, Evangeline Croft is the embodiment of a devoted wife. But beneath her tender smile festers a corrosive envy. When her husband’s mistress is found dead by an undetectable poison, a legal saga unfolds over decades, culminating in a Supreme Court battle that questions whether a woman’s suffering can ever excuse a crime born purely from the desire to destroy.