Reading copy. Maggie Gallacher had all but read the print off the elegant, gold-trimmed card. An invitation from the Duke of Moorshire to an evening at Lea Hall? She could still scarcely believe her eyes, even if it was a long-overdue honour - after all her husband Rod had done for the town. But had Maggie foreseen how it would turn out? Naturally, she did not see the invitation as the rock on which she was to perish; nor was she prepared for the reactions of her family. 251+pp