A poor, ailing man scraping a living in London unexpectedly inherits Marchmont Towers in Lincolnshire and marries Olivia Arundel, a clergyman’s proud, repressed daughter, to give his little Mary a protector. But Olivia burns with hopeless love for her cousin Edward Arundel, the young soldier Mary adores, and her jealousy turns the lonely house into a place of dread.
Braddon at her darkest, with one of the great repressed villainesses of the sensation novel. Download the free EPUB.