The daunting, rambling estate of Knowl is no home for a young woman on her own, and certainly not for Maud - just 18 years old. Freshly burdened with the sudden death of her father, and granted inheritance to his entire estate when she comes of age at 21, Maud is alone, unschooled in the ways of society, and vulnerable. In a bewildering turn of events, Uncle Silas is revealed as Maud’s guardian in her father’s will. A pariah of ‘society’, he is infamous for being a most vicious man, and a suspected murderer.

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