Back on Dec. 4, 2000, a sloe-eyed Nataliya Robertovna Yamayeva arrived in the U.S. wearing a $200 engagement ring from her American fiance. On the surface, "Natasha" Yamayeva was like all other newly minted fiancees, brimming with affection for her future husband. She was also filled with pastel visions of her future life in a Southern town bordering a leafy college campus, where Yamayeva could add to her Russian-earned college degrees in English and French and the couple could raise the child they were expecting.But Yamayeva's new American life would gradually darken. While she blames her husband, their painful misalliance...