Every single character in the first novella is writing a book. The novella quotes extensively from each which is a little annoying and, of course, each book is the character's way of trying to tell another character the truth he or she does not see. A little heavy handed but it all comes together in a neat little scandal at the end. I couldn't read the second novella. I barely made it through the first as her prose is a little too lush and descriptive for me.