A Fatal Silence Vol. 1: Restored Classics to Go Edition
Jul 2026 · Otbebookpublishing
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This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. In the tense days after Paula Rushton's dangerous childbirth, relief that mother and baby have survived is quickly shadowed by the domineering presence of Mrs. Rushton, Hal's stepmother, whose sharp tongue and intrusive authority unsettle the whole household. As Paula recovers, Hal grows increasingly suspicious of the widow's control over the sickroom, especially after catching her rifling through private papers and keys. When Dr. Addison is summoned to reassure them about the baby's pallid, sleepy condition, he makes a shocking discovery: Mrs. Rushton has been dosing the infant with laudanum. Hal banishes her and her son from Highbridge Hall, but the rupture leaves the family exposed to deeper secrets. Those secrets surface when Paula is confronted by Carl Bjornsën, her former husband, who brings with him the child she believed lost forever. The boy is her son, Paulie, and Carl is starving, gravely ill, and desperate for money and mercy. Torn between her hidden past, her loyalty to Hal, and her fierce need to save the child, Paula tries to secure help from Dr. Brown and find a humane refuge for Carl and Paulie before scandal and tragedy close in.
This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. In the tense days after Paula Rushton's dangerous childbirth, relief that mother and baby have survived is quickly shadowed by the domineering presence of Mrs. Rushton, Hal's stepmother, whose sharp tongue and intr...
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Florence Marryat was a prolific Victorian novelist, actress, journalist, and lecturer whose lively career reflected both the opportunities and constraints facing ambitious women in the nineteenth century. Born into a literary and naval family, she grew up close to the worlds of storytelling, public life, and social observation, and she went on to build an unusually varied career that included more than a hundred books, popular fiction, ghost stories, and writings on spiritualism. Marryat was known in her own time for her fast-paced, emotionally charged narratives and for her willingness to write about marriage, desire, class, family conflict, and women's independence with a candor that could be both entertaining and unsettling. Her work often explores the pressures placed on women to conform, the costs of respectability, and the tension between public appearance and private feeling, themes that still resonate in a culture preoccupied with identity, gender roles, and social performance. Though long overshadowed by better-remembered Victorian names, she remains significant as a writer who captured the anxieties and entertainments of her age while pushing against its limits. Today, readers can find in her fiction a sharp eye for character, a sense of melodramatic momentum, and a surprising modernity in her treatment of emotional and social freedom. She will especially appeal to readers who enjoy Victorian fiction with strong women, moral complexity, and a touch of sensational intrigue.
Florence Marryat was a prolific Victorian novelist, actress, journalist, and lecturer whose lively career reflected both the opportunities and constraints facing ambitious women in the nineteenth century. Born into a literary and naval family, she grew up close to the worlds of storytelling, publ...
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