故事发生于英国的剑桥和爱尔兰最北的小郡多内加尔。 一位英语系学生Ophelia，爱上了自己已婚的讲师Michael，当他们的婚外情经历令人震惊与悲伤的死亡后，Ophelia发现自己陷入了癫狂，她已无法再相信自己的头脑。

After losing their father in the Boer War, orphaned brothers Harry and Davy must leave their home in Scotland to live with their grandmother and cantankerous grandfather in Nova Scotia. The boys want nothing more than a pet dog, but their grandfather refuses to get them one. Then, when the brothers find an abandoned baby, they decide to keep it – but the foundling may not have been abandoned after all.

An American novelist living for a time in London converses with his wife, his mistress, and other female characters he may have dreamed up.

Love, lust, possession, money, social standing, and addiction. Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler; though loved by her husband Jeff, she's spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff wants to keep a lid on spending while he completes business deals that could make them rich. One night, on a hunch, she bets and loses big at a casino, then she doubles her problems with more impulsive decisions. Hardy Livingston, a wealthy Casanova just back from the Orient, makes a play for her. Elsa dallies with Hardy, but soon, his insistence and her dire financial affairs seem destined to lead to adultery. Who's the cheat?

一位在伦敦生活了一段时间的美国小说家与他的妻子、情妇和其他他可能梦想中的女性角色交流。

一位著名网红在偏远村庄举办目的地婚礼，却被发现死亡。一位愤世嫉俗却才华横溢的警察介入调查，随着调查深入，他发掘出诸多黑暗秘密、隐藏的背叛以及令人震惊的真相。在这场案件中，婚礼上的每个客人都成了这张扭曲爱网里的嫌疑人。

On the surface it's believed to be another urban legend - a supernatural being from the afterlife is violently killing anyone who cheats on their significant other in the small college town of Silvercreek, Pennsylvania. But the town's unusually high suicide rate is finally convincing both locals and college students that everything is not as it seems. When Maeve - a female college student - sleeps with Charlie, the married man of the host family she is staying with, both sense the deadly curse is closing in on them. Unable to get anyone to believe them, Maeve and Charlie seek out a local history student to help find answers and figure out a way to defend themselves. It all comes undone, however, as several people are horrifically killed by the savage being - one-by-one at a rapid pace. Eventually, Maeve, Charlie and the few survivors band together in an attempt to defeat the monster once and for all.

很久未曾与儿子谋面的母亲思儿心切，为解她的心头之苦，人们向她说了一个善意的谎言......