The Heiress of Northanger Abbey

Summary:

From the bestselling author of The Blue comes this sequel to Jane Austen’s beloved coming-of-age story with a Gothic twist.

“A thrilling mystery for everyone who wishes the Abbey really did have deep, gothic secrets–including some more dangerous than Catherine Morland ever dreamed!— Claudia Gray, NYT bestselling author of The Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney series.

Gloucestershire, 1820: Catherine Tilney is living a happily-ever-after twenty-two years later. But her busy life as a clergyman’s wife is shattered by a letter that resurrects her darkest fears. Her daughter Phoebe has fallen under the influence of the unscrupulous Thorpe family—the very figures who once nearly destroyed Catherine’s happiness.

Determined to protect her child from dangerous fortune hunters, Catherine follows Phoebe to an isolated manor on Dartmoor. There, she finds a landscape of reckless passions, family secrets, and a dangerously charming aristocratic neighbor. It all feels eerily like the plot of the latest Gothic sensation, The Vampyre — but is Catherine once again letting her imagination run wild?

The Heiress of Northanger Abbey is a story of mothers and daughters, deception and desire—and of a woman who must learn to trust her power of perception before it’s too late.