Hawthorne — Ruth Wolff

Soon after Keturah came to forbidding Hawthorne as governess to the shy child Adrianne, certain questions haunted her. Why did the regal mistress of Hawthorne become a recluse to care for Adrianne, whom she obviously did not love? Who was Adrianne, to whom did she belong? And what of the grim master of Hawthorne? What was the secret of his strange relationship to the woman and the child?

Keturah's discovery of Hawthorne's dark past changes the course of her life and her love, and make the novel “a warm, intense story with the qualities of Jane Eyre and Rebecca.”