River of Blood, a little bit of back story

They don't want husbands.All of them " tried " marriage, and all of them were miserable, except for Alina course, who is still a virgin, but then her disfigurement will make a relationship difficult anyway./////Pauline de Montfort, while she was Paul, had an ex-wife and a daughter;now, she is not allowed to have contact with either one.////// Sharon Chiron's husband was very abusive. She tied him up one night while he was passed out from drinking, cut out his tongue and cut off his testicles.She enjoyed watching him slowly - albeit quietly- die; it took almost a week.///// Myrtle Rinier knew about her husband's affairs and put up with it, but when Mr. Rinier said that he was going to have a child with another woman, she snapped.He had regretted marrying a "barren" woman, who wasn't even Italian like he was. Rinier has been missing for six years;soon,Myrtle will be able to have him pronounced legally dead.///// Jill, still beautiful and alluring, although the heroin was beginning to ravage her, had been married the longest- almost twenty years, but the inevitability of her husband falling in love with a younger woman occurred; her divorce settlement was extraordinary and legendary.She is very rich. A couple years after her divorce, her ex-husband and his fiancé died in an apparent terrorist nightclub bombing./////