Answering an advertisement for a governess who must be young, an eighteen-year-old girl travels to Geldham in Norfolk to teach one little girl of six for thirty-five pounds a year. The house on the marsh is beautiful and strange, its master charming and evasive, and a guest called Tom watches the jewel at her throat a little too closely.
A suspenseful sensation novel of the 1880s that kept readers up at night, for fans of governess Gothic. Download the free EPUB.