
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I. - "THE CASTE OF VERE DE VERE"
CHAPTER II. - DASHWOOD HALL
CHAPTER III. - HORACE MAYFIELD
CHAPTER IV. - A LEAF FROM THE PAST
CHAPTER V. - THE SACRIFICE
CHAPTER VI. - A CRUEL MISUNDERSTANDING
CHAPTER VII. - THE ONLY WAY
CHAPTER VIII. - FOUND!
A daring young woman, Mary Dashwood, races across a bleak, wind‑swept moor on a black horse, the looming lych‑gate promising a fatal crash. As the thunderous animal barrels toward danger, a stranger appears from the shadows, his steady voice cutting through the storm and his strong hands pulling her from the brink. The moment is charged with breathless urgency, yet it also hints at a deeper bond, recalling a life‑saving encounter in Paris that still lingers in Mary’s memory.
Now safe on the roadside, Mary finds herself tangled in a web of family expectations, hidden loyalties, and the enigmatic Darnley’s quiet amusement. Their reunion sparks a series of choices that will test the Dashwood name, drawing her into mysteries that stretch far beyond the moorland’s edge. Listeners will be drawn into a world where courage meets destiny, and every whispered secret could alter the course of a lineage.
Language
en
Duration
~9 hours (564K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Charles Bowen from page scans provided by Google Books (The New York Public Library)
Release date
2018-06-12
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
1859–1935
A prolific late-Victorian storyteller, this English writer moved easily between detective fiction, thrillers, and early science fiction. He is especially remembered for the vivid “Doom of London” tales, which imagined the city under waves of strange disasters.
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