The Lost Brontë - by Catherine Friend (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

A spellbinding tale of hidden desires, whispered secrets, and a darkness that lingers behind every locked door.

Yorkshire, 1898.

When twenty-one-year-old Lilianne Loxley is sent to Lord Bexton's isolated estate to work off her uncle's debts, she expects drudgery--not danger. With her gift for mimicry, she becomes Bexton's secretary--and his reluctant forger. Soon she's trapped in a scheme to create a "lost" novel by Emily Brontë, a deception that could make--or destroy--fortunes.

The house is full of secrets: footsteps echo in empty corridors, lemon-scented ghosts haunt her sleepless nights, and a portrait seems to watch her every move. Yet it's the living who unsettle her most--especially Wren McAllister, the sharp-tongued maid whose defiance hides a tender heart. Drawn together by loss and longing, Lily and Wren risk everything for a freedom neither has ever known.

As the line between truth and invention blurs, Lily uncovers a shocking connection to the Brontë family--and to Bexton himself--that will force her to choose between love, loyalty, and the dangerous power of her own pen.

Catherine Friend's The Lost Brontë is an atmospheric gothic romantic mystery steeped in secrets, desire, and literary intrigue.

About the Author

Catherine Friend is the award-winning author of sapphic adventure romances, memoirs, nonfiction, and children's books. She is a six-time Golden Crown Literary Society Award and Minnesota Book Award winner and Lambda Literary Award finalist. She loves slipping women-loving-women into overlooked corners of history--whether through pirates, ghosts, or time travel. After 25 years of farming with her wife, she now lives in a small Minnesota river town with two dogs, writing, teaching, and reading tarot.