Jean Muir arrives at the Coventry country house as a meek nineteen-year-old governess, and within days the sons, the cousin and the old uncle are all in her power. Alone in her room, she drops the act. Alcott published this sensation novella in 1866 under the pen name A. M. Barnard.
A sharp, subversive thriller by the author of Little Women, rediscovered only in the 1970s. Download the free EPUB.