The Passion And Tragedy Of A Legendary Love Cannot Be Silenced... No one but a daughter can truly know the torment of a mother's unhappy marriage... No one but an innocent child can be so vulnerable to the devastating consequences of an adulterous love. Concordia Malatesta is this daughter, this child. At age fourteen, she is shattered and lost as her world crumbles an dthose she lvoes are forever destroyed. Though condemned to a prison of silence, Concordia must reveal the story that is too painful, the crime that was too desperate to remain a secret.