Mohawks: A Novel. Volume 2 of 3
Two men. One heiress. A portrait that shouldn't exist. In this volume of Braddon's sensation novel, Lord Lavendale and his friend Herrick find themselves entangled in rival claims upon the dazzling Irene Bosworth, an heiress whose fortune has made her the prize of every ambitious suitor in Victorian England. Lavendale desperately hopes to win back his former lover Judith, while Herrick's passion for Irene burns undimmed. But as the scene shifts to Mr. Topsparkle's lavish library, where wealth and social status are debated over Brandy and cigars, a mysterious portrait emerges one bearing an uncanny resemblance to Irene herself. What secrets does this image unlock about her identity and lineage? Braddon, master of the Victorian sensation novel, weaves a heady cocktail of romantic rivalry, class anxiety, and whispered mysteries that kept late-19th-century readers turning pages by candlelight. For lovers of "Lady Audley's Secret" and the genre that invented addictive serialized fiction.
