When a gynecologist commits suicide after being accused of sexually molesting a patient, his wife deceptively becomes the live-in housekeeper for the woman and, as a bizarre form of revenge, proceeds to make the woman's family her own

Marnie, a compulsive thief and liar is caught. Her captor impulsively marries the frigid, disturbed girl in hopes of helping her and discovering the reasons for her ongoing anti-social behavior.

Asylum takes place in England, during the high-Freudian days of the 1950s, when psychiatry had started to flex its muscles. Hugh Bonneville is a professional success, but his wife Stella has already exhausted the era's possibilities--she adores her 10-year-old son, but her marriage has long since faded into endless days, gray evenings sipping scotch by the fire, and badly concealed contempt. Hugh has been hired by a sprawling high-security psychiatric...

Valentina and Eduardo own a nightclub in Los Angeles where they star as tango performers. Fortunately for Valentina, the dance gives her relief from her madness and obsessive love for her husband. The couple have two sons, one entering the priesthood and the other drifting toward gangster life, both who exhibit some of their mother's mental illness.

Charlotte Brontë's story of an orphan who grows up to become governess of a mansion, and who carries a tormented love for a man named Mr. Rochester.