Victorian writer Mary Elizabeth Braddon published Lady Audley's Secret to instant acclaim in 1862. Both a detective novel and a riveting portrayal of criminal duplicity, gender conventions, and social class, the novel remains a chilling page-turner to this day. Young governess Lucy Graham is the very picture of beauty, benevolence, and grace. When she crosses paths with the village's wealthy widower, Sir Michael Audley, he is immediately smitten. The couple marry, and Lucy's fortune and position are completely changed. Nobody really knows where she came from or where she grew up, but Lucy is now universally loved. By all except Robert, Sir Michael's nephew, who harbours a few suspicions and is determined to find out more. What shadows might lurk in Lucy's past? Why has Robert's good friend George Talboys vanished all of a sudden, and does the new Lady Audley have something to do with it? Jane Eyre, Madame Bovary, and Lady Chatterley's Lover are also available in this Macmillan Collector's Library series of gorgeous paperbacks featuring four of the most scandalous novels ever published.