Thornfield appears far deeper and darker than they pretend. Thornfield, an army doctor returned from the Sikh Wars and the gracious Sikh butler, Mr. Charles Thornfield, who seeks a governess.īurning to know whether she is in fact the rightful heir, Jane takes the position incognito and learns that Highgate House is full of marvelously strange new residents - the fascinating but caustic Mr. Her aunt has died, and her childhood home has a new master: Mr.
After years of hiding from the law while penning macabre "last confessions" of the recently hanged, Jane thrills at discovering an advertisement.
A reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer, from the author whose work The New York Times described as "riveting" and The Wall Street Journal called "thrilling".Ī sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life until escaping to London, leaving the corpses of her tormentors behind her.
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