In August 1853 the young Eleanor Vane crosses to Dieppe to join her charming, improvident father in Paris. A night at cards ruins him, and his death leaves her with one purpose: to track down the man who cheated him. Her quest follows her into a respectable English household and a marriage in which revenge and love pull against each other.
A taut sensation novel of obsession and detection by the author of Lady Audley’s Secret. Download the free EPUB.