Sand Sharks

Начало книги

My thanks to all the members of the North Carolina Association of District Court Judges, who over the years have let me sit in on their conferences, shared their stories of humor and heartbreak, and answered my endless questions. I could not have written these books without their generous help.

CHAPTER

1

By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law.… If the wife be injured in her person or her property, she can bring no action for redress without her husband’s concurrence.

—Sir William Blackstone (1723–1780)

I should never have suggested perfume. If I’d stuck to something plain vanilla like a lacy bed jacket or some pretty note cards or even a box of assorted chocolates, it would have been fine. But no. I had to stop at a cosmetics counter in Crabtree Mall for a tube of my favorite moisturizer and say to Cal, “What about that?”

“That” was a small white porcelain bottle shaped like a single perfect gardenia.

Читать дальше →