The Wedding Night
“TONIGHT She'd leave the man she LOVED with all her SOUL...to MARRY the man she despised!”
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett develops romantic feelings for Manya Novak, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik Sobieski. After a snowstorm, Tony and Manya get trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists that her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.
A stifling, repressed romance unfolds amidst rural isolation. Expect simmering desires, societal expectations, and a tragically inevitable descent into jealousy and ruin. It's a classic tale of love gone wrong.
