Love Letters

A gullible heiress, drunk on incense and moonlit hokum, mistakes the silk-robed charlatan Raymond Moreland for a maharishi of desire; when the veil lifts she bolts from the elopement, trading hashish hallucinations for the saner contract of marriage to her steadfast guardian John Harland. Years later the guru-turned-blackmailer slithers back, waving her youthful billets-doux like kerosene-soaked torches. One midnight scuffle, a revolver’s bark, and Moreland lies cold while Harland—now the city’s top prosecutor—inherits the very case that could hang his wife. What follows is a fevered paper-chase through drawing rooms, opium parlors, and courthouse corridors as Eileen races to incinerate every last scarlet syllable before her husband’s duty collides with her secret.