Set in Regency England, "The Wyvern Mystery" has the components of a disturbing detective story and a vivid historical drama. Little Alice Maybell is bereaved an orphan and taken to live in the home of Squire Fairfield, a widower with two sons, Charles and Harry. When Alice blooms into a stunning young woman, the Squire's behavior toward her becomes lasciviously menacing. To evade his advances, she secretly runs off with his son, Charles, to the family's isolated estate, Carwell Grange. The delightful happiness that follows is transitory as Alice becomes entangled in the mysterious enigmas of the Fairfield family's history and their vindictive aspirations of the present-day. Surrounding her is an atmosphere of malevolence and dread, where people and situations are difficult to reconcile. Charles Fairfield's past is murky. What secrets is he concealing? What is the noxious aura lurking in Carwell Grange?
Set in Regency England, "The Wyvern Mystery" has the components of a disturbing detective story and a vivid historical drama. Little Alice Maybell is bereaved an orphan and taken to live in the home of Squire Fairfield, a widower with two sons, Charles and Harry. When Alice blooms into a stunning young woman, the Squire's behavior toward her becomes lasciviously menacing. To evade his advances, she secretly runs off with his son, Charles, to the family's isolated estate, Carwell Grange. The delightful happiness that follows is transitory as Alice becomes entangled in the mysterious enigmas of the Fairfield family's history and their vindictive aspirations of the present-day. Surrounding her is an atmosphere of malevolence and dread, where people and situations are difficult to reconcile. Charles Fairfield's past is murky. What secrets is he concealing? What is the noxious aura lurking in Carwell Grange?
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