Trio by Dorothy Baker

'Trio is the story of the crucial decisive moment in the lives of three people. Pauline Maury is a professor of French in a Western university; both clever and beautiful, author of a fine critical work on the 'decadent' French poets, she is apparently at the the threshold of her crowning success. Janet Logan is Pauline's assistant, admirer, intellectual disciple, bound to her teacher by stronger bonds than those of friendship. Utterly outside their world, impinging on it by chance, is Ray McKenzie, occasional student living in his dark basement room. . . . The conflict among them is one of love and hate and violence; a conflict whose final resolution is implicit in the opening scene.' from the dustjacket

'Highly defamatory' ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley