Jezebel's Daughter

In the shadow of two deaths on the same day, two widows emerge to challenge the limits society has placed upon them. Mrs. Wagner Determined to fulfil her husband's progressive vision for women in business, and Madame Fontaine, a widow of means who will stop at nothing to secure a brilliant match for her daughter Minna. But Madame Fontaine's schemes are built on a dangerous foundation of family scandal, and when she crosses paths with Jack Straw, a figure who has emerged from the notorious Bedlam lunatic asylum with secrets of his own, the consequences turn lethal. Wilkie Collins constructs a labyrinth of manipulation, maternal love, and moral compromise where no one is entirely what they seem and everyone has something to hide. As the body count rises and the truth threatens to surface, Collins asks how far a mother will travel down a dark road in the name of love. Dark, cunning, and utterly addictive, this is sensation fiction at its finest, a novel that proves the most dangerous prisons have no walls, only secrets.