Scarlet's Letter - Short Story Novel

In the Rural Ozark Town of Willow River in Southwest, Missouri, an anonymously written letter is received at the local Baptist church. The letter accuses the Church Pianist, widow Scarlet O’Malley, of having inappropriate relations with a married man, a member and Deacon of the church. Scarlet’s humiliation is played out before the entire church congregation as the gossip mongers sit on the edge of their seats eagerly awaiting the revelation of who Scarlet’s lover might be. With a surprise ending no reader will see coming Scarlet’s Letter transforms Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, written in 1850, into a captivating, mid-century adaptation.