Fenton's Quest

Gilbert Fenton has everything: a thriving business in London, respectable prospects, and a future mapped out in the comfortable lanes of middle-class Victorian society. Then he meets the beautiful, mysterious woman from the countryside, and all his careful plans dissolve into dangerous obsession. She is below his station in every way that matters to society, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing her. But as he draws closer to winning her, Fenton discovers that the woman he loves harbors secrets that could destroy them both. Braddon, the scandalous queen of sensation fiction who shocked Victorian England with her tales of bigamy and desire, weaves a tale of passion, deception, and the terrible price of wanting what society says you cannot have. This is Victorian fiction at its most transgressive: a story that asks whether love is worth sacrificing everything you've built, and whether the objects of our desire are ever truly knowable.