The Woman in White

PREFACE & SUMMARY A Moonlit Encounter.A Hidden Asylum. A Web of Deception and Stolen Identity. Walking down a lonely, fog-shrouded London road at midnight, young drawing master Walter Hartright is startled by a sudden touch on his shoulder. There stands a terrified, ethereal woman dressed entirely in white, desperately seeking directions to escape the city. Shortly after helping her vanish into the dark, Walter learns a chilling truth from the pursuing authorities: the mysterious stranger has just escaped from a private lunatic asylum. BASILI OLARAK AL Little does he know, this bizarre, moonlit encounter has violently entangled his destiny with a monstrous high-society conspiracy. When Walter takes a new job at a grand country estate, he is shocked to discover that his beautiful pupil, Laura Fairlie, bears an uncanny, identical resemblance to the tragic woman in white. As Laura is forced into a predatory marriage with the cold Sir Percival Glyde and his brilliant, sadistic Italian accomplice, Count Fosco, a labyrinth of corporate greed and psychological warfare unfolds. To protect the woman he loves from total ruin and systematic erasure, Walter must turn detective, risking his life..