Aurora Floyd

Aurora Floyd is the daughter of a marriage between a nobleman and an actress. As she grows into maturity, this head-strong, dangerous and seductive vixen becomes embroiled in mystery and scandal. The story includes such controversial events as bigamy, murder and elopement.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) was an English popular novelist of the Victorian era. She is best known for her sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret, which has also been dramatized and filmed several times. Braddon was a prolific writer, producing more than 80 novels with inventive plots. She wrote several ghost stories and supernatural tales, and she also wrote historical fiction. Braddon also founded Belgravia magazine (1866), which presented readers with serialized sensation novels, poems, travel narratives and biographies, as well as essays on fashion, history and science.