Edmond Dantès

The man who was once Edmond Dantès became the Count of Monte Cristo, and the Count became a legend. But legends do not rest. In this astonishing sequel, the greatest avenger of French literature returns, swept back into the currents of history when revolution rocks France in 1848. Our story finds the Count aboard his yacht with Haydée, preparing for their wedding. But fate has not finished testing him. A violent storm shatters their idyll, and shipwreck leaves them marooned on hostile shores where an old enemy lurks in the shadows. What follows is a tale of love imperiled, redemption tested, and a man who discovers that even after one has destroyed one's enemies, the past has a way of raising new ghosts. This is Dantès as he truly is: not the mythic figure of revenge, but a mortal man caught between the man he was, the man he has become, and the man he might yet become.