Two cousins, Philip and George Caresfoot, quarrel over money and an inheritance, and their enmity shapes the next generation. Philip’s daughter Angela grows up neglected in a lonely country house, until she falls in love with the young Arthur Heigham, and the schemes of her elders, a ruthless woman among them, gather against the pair, with a touch of the occult.
Haggard’s first novel, written before King Solomon’s Mines, shows his gift for melodrama in an English setting. Download the free EPUB.