East Lynne

Lord Mount Severn has sixty thousand pounds a year—and a mountain of papers that may still ruin him. Now East Lynne, the estate he must sell in secret, has drawn an unexpected buyer.

In Victorian England, the earl’s London library is a refuge of velvet and old prestige, but its table is buried under debts. His only child is Lady Isabel; his visitor, Mr. Carlyle, has come from West Lynne to buy East Lynne, the family property the earl can no longer afford to keep. Suspicious of every approach, Lord Mount Severn must decide whether to trust the upright young lawyer—or risk exposing his desperate affairs. A private sale may ease his troubles, but what will it mean for the daughter whose story begins here?

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