Mohawks

In this dark Victorian tale of passion, jealousy, and revenge, secret marriages and buried histories collide with the rigid demands of class, pride, and family ambition. Irene's runaway union with Durnford is thrown into turmoil by her furious mother, Mdlle. Latour, while the influence of Mrs. Layburne and the discovery of old letters hint at a deeper mystery surrounding Irene's birth, her resemblance to a long-vanished portrait, and a hidden chain of guardianship and inheritance. At the same time, Fétis is shaken by a ghostly apparition, then publicly disgraced when bailiffs seize him, exposing the cruel vanity and corruption of Topsparkle's world. As dread gathers, Lavendale becomes convinced that a supernatural warning has doomed him to die at midnight, and those around him struggle to comfort him while fearing for his sanity. On a moonlit New Year's Eve, love and terror meet in his final hours, and his death in Judith's arms closes one family line even as it deepens the novel's emotional force. Three years later, reconciliation and inheritance have remade Lavendale Manor, yet grief still lingers: every New Year's Eve, a sorrowful woman returns to mourn the lover she lost, reminding all that in this world, the past never truly dies. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.