Rebecca

Gothic Romances

Author: Daphne du Maurier

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again…Working as a lady’s companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Her future looks bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Max de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to the ominous and brooding Manderley,….Read More

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