It Was All About Sects

Essex, England-1860 Catherine Devereaux becomes Lady Ashworth when she marries the Marquis of Ashworth. She enjoys breeding horses, designing gardens and fancy balls, but her inability to produce an heir brings untold abuse from her husband, Lord Ashworth. She devises a way to stay away from him but the situation worsens. Lady Ashworth actually welcomes the untimely death of her husband, then learns that he willed the estate to an unknown cousin. Never lacking in determination, Lady Ashworth crafts a scheme to insure her possession of Ashworth when she learns her husband has impregnated one of the maids. In search of true love Lady Ashworth initiates a series of liaisons, including a priest and a psychoanalyst, that only generate greater problems for her. Finally, she realizes the fruits of her search in away she never imagined. But at what price?