Kept

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When Henry Ireland dies unexpectedly from what appears to be a riding
accident in August 1863, the failed landowner leaves behind little save
his high-strung young widow, Isabel—who somehow ends up in the home of
Ireland's friend James Dixey. A celebrated naturalist, Dixey collects
strange trophies in his secluded, decaying manse and has questionable
associations with rather unsavory characters—including a pair of
thuggish poachers named Dewar and Dunbar. Dixey's precocious,
inquisitive young servant, Esther, cannot turn a blind eye to the
suspicious activities surrounding her. While in the crime-ridden streets
of London, a determined captain of Scotland Yard follows the threads
that may well link a daring train robbery to the disappearance of a
disturbed heiress as well as to the possible murder of Henry Ireland.D.
J. Taylor's Kept is a gorgeously intricate, dazzling reinvention of
Victorian life and passions that is also a riveting investigation into
some of the darkest, most secret chambers of the human heart.