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Dark Ways and Women's Wiles

What happens when a lonely country girl succumbs to temptation? Here is the frank story of a girl whose affair with a traveling man led her into wayward paths and sinister habits.

She became a woman who lived her life to the full, without apology . . . and yet without true love. In these pages you will be moved by the human drama in the lives of

Madame Leota, who lost her youth in one evil hour.
Steve Garland, the young poet who taught her tenderness—and died before he tasted the fruits of love.
Yekial Meigs, the dour farmer with a crab-apple soul—on his acres a strange interlude ended in violent drama.
Dorothy, Madame Leota's pretty niece, for whose sake the most stirring moments in a near-tragedy were played.

When Madame Leota sacrificed herself to protect Dorothy and the man she loved from the pointing fingers of society, she proved all cannot be evil in any human heart. In Woman without Love? you will learn the truth about one woman's life and experience.