The Lost Brontë by Catherine Friend

Description

Yorkshire, 1898. Twenty-one-year-old Lilianne Loxley arrives at Lord Bexton’s isolated estate expecting hard work, not intrigue. Her unusual talent for mimicry soon makes her valuable to Bexton, who puts her to work as his secretary and reluctant forger in an audacious scheme to create a previously unknown novel by Emily Brontë.

But Bexton’s estate is a place where nothing is quite what it seems. Strange footsteps echo through empty corridors, lemon-scented ghosts disturb Lily’s sleep, and a mysterious portrait appears to follow her every move. The supernatural may be unsettling, but Lily finds the living far more difficult to understand.

Among them is Wren McAllister, a sharp-tongued maid whose outward defiance conceals a tender heart. As Lily and Wren are drawn together by shared loss, longing, and a desire for freedom, their growing relationship becomes increasingly dangerous.

When Lily discovers a shocking connection between the Brontë family and Lord Bexton, the boundaries between literary invention and reality begin to collapse. She must decide where her loyalties lie, what truths are worth risking everything to uncover, and whether she and Wren can claim a future of their own.

With its locked doors, ghosts, literary deception, Victorian setting, and forbidden romance, The Lost Brontë is an atmospheric gothic mystery about desire, identity, and the dangerous power of telling your own story.

Book Details

• Title: The Lost Brontë
• Author: Catherine Friend
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 1612943454
• Setting: Yorkshire, England, 1898
• Genres: Historical Fiction, Gothic Mystery, Sapphic Romance