Title: Mo gui de ke wang
Description: Beatrice Corning, the niece of the present earl, is a proper English miss. But she has a secret: no real man has ever excited her more than the handsome youth in the portrait in her uncle's home. Suddenly, that very man, thought to be murdered years ago, is here in the flesh. Half mad after seven years in hellish captivity, Reynaud St. Aubyn has burst into his ancestral home demanding his inheritance...
Subjects: Social life and customs, Aristocracy (Social class), Inheritance and succession, Fiction
Places: England
Time periods: 18th century