Natalie Graybrooke, daughter of a placid knight, is promised by her family to the rich, brutal Levant merchant Richard Turlington. She loves her cousin Launcelot Linzie, a young surgeon, and when the two marry in secret, the question of whether she is Miss or Mrs. becomes a matter of life and death.
A brisk novella of suspense told in ‘scenes’, showing Collins’s flair for plot in miniature. Download the free EPUB.