Mohawks: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3

In Victorian London, where reputation is everything and desire is dangerous, playwright Herrick Durnford dares to want what he cannot have. Irene Bosworth is an heiress, and her father has other plans for her future. But Herrick's play is rising in the theatres, and with it, his ambitions grow bolder. When autumn arrives and the social season reaches its height, he proposes a daring elopement that will ignite family fury and reveal secrets buried for generations. M.E. Braddon, the sensation novelist who scandalized Victorian England with "Lady Audley's Secret," brings her trademark wit and melodrama to this tale of love, ambition, and social transgression. The London stage glitters with false faces while offstage, real identities crumble. What begins as a courtship against parental wishes becomes a revelation of hidden scandals and complicated allegiances. For readers who relish the combustible combination of theatrical intrigue and forbidden romance, Braddon delivers Victorian excess at its finest.