"When seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is invited to Northanger Abbey the grand and
forbidding ancestral seat of her suitor Henry Tilney she allows the Gothic novels she's
obsessed with to fill her mind with terrible suspicions. What is the mystery surrounding the
death of Henry's mother? Is the family concealing a terrible secret within the elegant rooms of
the Abbey? Can she trust Henry or is he part of an evil conspiracy? Determined to see herself
as the heroine of a dark and thrilling romance Catherine becomes embroiled in a real drama of
misapprehension mistreatment and mortification until common sense--and a clarification of
her financial status--puts all to right."--Provided by publisher.
