In the castle of the Mazzini family on the northern coast of Sicily, the sisters Julia and Emilia grow up neglected while their father, the Marquis, takes a new wife. Mysterious lights and noises in an abandoned wing hint at a buried crime, and Julia’s flight from a forced marriage sends her through caverns, convents and wild country.
An early Radcliffe novel from 1790, full of the trapdoors and moonlit ruins that defined Gothic romance. Download the free EPUB.