Prison visitor Shirley Cocklin, forced the Home Office to allow her to marry while her man was still in prison; Kate Kray continues to see her husband Ronnie in prison and Sarah Trevelyan found a gentle, creative side to the Beast of Barlinnie. But how can a woman love a man she knows is literally capable of murder? This book talks to the wives and lovers of killers and discovers how they all, in different ways, came to cope with the knowledge that their man took another's life.