Guests gather at an old English abbey for Christmas, where Maurice Treherne, the poor cousin of the heir, watches the beautiful Octavia with hopeless love. Flirtations under the mistletoe, a forged document, a family legend and a ghostly revel in the old chapel bring the household’s secrets into the open.
One of the lurid thrillers Alcott wrote under a pen name, showing a side of the Little Women author few readers know. Download the free EPUB.