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Romantic SuspenseLarge Print EditionAlcotts tale of obsession and sexual politics deepens our appreciation of her championing of womens rights and for her extraordinary storytelling skills. Booklist* A New York Times Bestseller* A Publishers Weekly Bestseller* A Literary Guild SelectionReaching out over more than a hundred years, this Victorian heroine tells a story so sensational it could not be published during Louisa May Alcotts lifetime. It is the story of the sheltered Rosamond Vivian brought up a recluse on a remote island and what happens to her when she meets the charming, devastatingly handsome Phillip Tempest, a man who is almost twice her age, and for whom she becomes an obsession.
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Rosamond Vivian, brought up on a remote island by an indifferent grandfather, swears she'd sell her soul to Satan for a year of freedom. When Philip Tempest enters her life, she is ripe for the plucking, but is soon caught up in a web of intrigue, cruelty and deceit stretching back far into the past. Remarkable for its portrayal of a sensual, spirited Victorian heroine, Louisa May Alcott's work, too shocking to be published during her lifetime, tells a compulsive tale of love, desire and deceit. Its publication more than a century after being written marks a new page in literary history.
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