Vengeance of failed love: Lesbian tragedy: Alicia Stone hates her former wife Mary Edmonds. Alicia is a successful business woman and a single mother. For 25 years, she has kept a secret hidden from her son and everyone else. A secret if ever revealed would show the depth of her vindictiveness and the ultimate failure that results from vengeance. Alicia wanted Mary to suffer, to hurt, to endure the most horrible pain possible. And she found a way to do it.