Armadale

When a murderer makes a deathbed confession, he leaves behind a letter to be given to his infant son, a letter that contains a secret powerful enough to destroy both the boy and a stranger who shares his name. Twenty years later, the son, now going by Ozias Midwinter, is a wanderer haunted by abuse and abandonment, while the other Allan Armadale has grown up innocent, kind, heir to a legacy he doesn't know was built on murder. When their paths collide, Midwinter finds himself drawn into Armadale's life, his home, and ultimately his love, unaware that the letter containing the truth about his father still waits to be opened. What follows is a labyrinth of coincidence, guilt, and tracking fate, as two men bound by blood and a shared name circle each other in a dark dance neither can escape. Collins, master of the sensation novel, weaves a tale where the past refuses to stay buried and every choice threatens to unleash the violence of generations past.