Cover of The Cloven Foot by M. E. Braddon

The Cloven Foot

by M. E. Braddon

652 pages~11 hrs

Inheritance is a blessing, but secrets are a death sentence.

A desperate man stands to inherit a vast fortune if he marries his uncle’s ward, but a web of bigamy and hidden crimes threatens to unravel his golden future. Amidst a backdrop of Victorian scandal and lethal jealousy, one man's struggle to bury his past leads to a dangerous game of deception and murder.

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