I found this book after reading Little Women, and to say I was shocked is an understatement.  Alcott seems to be a completely different writer in the creation of this masterpiece!  The fact that a woman of that time period wrote this blows my mind.  I love the darkness and mystery wrapped up in this story of a young woman trying to escape from a man whom she hastily married to get away from her dull life.  You must read it!