the back of the book it says three women by Marsh Hastings burn lives in the world of wealthy and sophistication yet or life has been limited by the cost of tension she must give to the emotionally unstable corrector. tender naive Paula Temple has eagerly accepted Phil Carson's marriage proposal a route to freedom from the sad dengeialis where she has lived for her 18 years and from her ill alcoholic sodden father. then Phil introduces her to his aunt burn and from that moment Carla she's an elegant aristic heuristic burn she understands that only now as she discovered real possibility for happiness burn is Bewitched by Paula unable to withstand the young woman's desire for her she says comes but even the power of her wealth cannot free her from Paula's love she is bound to Greta by the terrible events that have locked them together since childhood one of the best novels to come out during the Golden age of lesbian publishing in the late 50s the classic three women returns to the light a whole new generatiom.