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An orphaned young woman travels to a desolate Cornish inn where her aunt's husband runs something far worse than a tavern.
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My Cousin Rachel
A young Englishman becomes obsessed with his beautiful cousin Rachel, unable to determine whether she's an innocent widow or the woman who murdered his guardian.
Rebecca
A shy young woman marries the wealthy widower Maxim de Winter and moves to his estate, Manderley, where the memory of his first wife, Rebecca, and the housekeeper devoted to her, still rule.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
A family on the moors is threatened by a spectral hound, and Holmes uncovers the very human evil behind the legend.
Jane Eyre
A plain governess falls in love with her employer, only to discover his mansion hides a secret that makes their marriage impossible.
Wuthering Heights
Two families on the Yorkshire moors are consumed by a love so fierce it outlasts death, sanity, and two generations.
The Return of the Native
A Paris diamond merchant returns to Egdon Heath to become a schoolteacher, and his marriage to a restless woman who longs to escape the heath ends in tragedy.
Blacklands
Steven Lamb, twelve, spends his afternoons digging on Exmoor for the body of his uncle Billy, murdered nineteen years ago by Arnold Avery, and to find it he writes to Avery in prison.
Uncle Silas
After her father's death, young Maud Ruthyn is sent to live as the ward of her uncle Silas, a reclusive man still shadowed by an old scandal, in his decaying house in Derbyshire.
Great Expectations
An orphan navigates Victorian England's class system, from the marshes to London, discovering that his mysterious benefactor is not who he assumed.
The Woman in Black
A young London solicitor travels to a remote market town to settle the papers of a reclusive widow at Eel Marsh House, a building cut off by the tides, and sees a wasted woman in black at her funeral.
Drowning Ruth
In 1919 Amanda Starkey leaves her nursing job in Milwaukee for the family farm on a Wisconsin lake, and after her sister drowns there one winter night, she raises her niece, Ruth, under a cloud of secrets.
The Woman in White
A drawing master walking to London at midnight meets a woman dressed all in white who has escaped from an asylum, and the encounter draws him into a conspiracy surrounding the heiress he has fallen for.