About the book: 2007 / Mary Elizabeth Braddon is the queen of the English romance novel. One of her most famous books is Lady Audley's Secret. The pretty young governess Lucy Graham marries her master, the wealthy elderly aristocrat Sir Michael Audley. For the time being, she manages to “save face” - to play the role of a respectable lady from high society in front of her demanding neighbors. But unexpectedly, Sir Michael’s nephew Robert and his friend George arrive from the gold mines. Seeing Lucy's portrait, George, who has lost his wife and child, experiences a severe shock, after which he suddenly disappears. And Robert, initially fascinated by the brilliant and vicious beauty of Lady Audley, begins to suspect that in the past of the newly made lady not everything is as smooth as she likes to tell…