At Combe-Raven in Somersetshire, Magdalen and Norah Vanstone grow up in comfort until a sudden death reveals that their parents were not married when they were born, and under the law they are nobody’s children with no claim on the estate. Norah submits; Magdalen, an actress by instinct, resolves to win back the inheritance by disguise, deception and any means at hand.
Collins’s sharpest attack on Victorian inheritance law, with one of his boldest heroines. Download the free EPUB.