Mary Heaton is a respectable middle-aged widow, with a daughter who recently went off to university and a husband who until his death was a senior member of the cabinet. Her friends regard her as a little stiff and a little old-fashioned, but mostly as a very straight-laced woman. And then, one morning, a letter arrives with a threat to reveal the truth about Mary's sordid past.The Pornographer's Wife is the story of a woman who thought she'd buried her past forever, and a blackmailer who will stop at nothing to make her reveal the truth.