Crookhill Abbey

<p>Lord Lacy's daughter Emily is persuaded by her parents to marry the ageing Lord Dalrymple. After all he has a title Earl of Morpeth and a mansion Crookhill Abbey that is even more extensive than Lord Lacy's mansion in Buxton. However when Emily gets to Northumberland she finds that Crookhill Abbey is little better than a crumbling mausoleum. <em>Crookhill Abbey</em> is not quite a Jane Austen sequel – but there are echoes of Jane Austen's <em>Pride and Prejudice</em> – also Eliza Parsons' <em>The Castle of Wolfenbach</em> and Ann Radcliffe's <em>The Mysteries of Udolpho</em>. However there are also many new characters including the heroine Emily the anti-hero Lord Dalrymple Thomas a struggling artist and his aristocratic lover Catherine all tangled up in an original plot that leads them to – the horrors of Crookhill Abbey.</p>