The novel opens on a London dinner party in the 1840s and a marriage that brings Lady Maulevrier a title and a buried scandal. Forty years later she lives in retirement in the north with her granddaughters, the ambitious beauty Lesbia and the open-hearted Mary, until Lesbia’s entry into London society and a cry in the darkness at home begin to bring the past to light.
A rich late Braddon novel of family secrets from the author of Lady Audley’s Secret. Download the free EPUB.