The House of Mourning The House of Mirth Vengeance and liberation from evil and a love story gone awry. A saga of one family that begins in the mists of northern Quebec and follows a murderous psychopath, Henri Duvalier to a small Michigan town, Bouche Bay. The horror of the illness that drives men to rape and a victim, Rita Aiyana Haddon, whose young life is altered by this. The lust of a man (Michael) for a woman(Mary Martha) he marries in haste, and the triangle that gets thorny. Rita is mystified by the disappearance of her real love Tomas after one glorious afternoon together. And Mary Martha's quiet, certain fall into insanity.