In the days before the Civil War, a young woman in New Hampshire has been sentenced to death. Lucy Blunt has been accused of a double murder at Burton mansion, where she worked. Guilty or innocent, as Lucy fights to have her sentence overturned, she looks back at the events that led her to where she is, poised on the brink of death. There are shades of Lizzie Borden here, where a young woman is restricted and confined by the customs and expectations of her time. And what happens when that same woman finally reaches a breaking point. Masterfully written, this is a searing indictment on women’s rights