Nellie

A late-Victorian novel about a young couple—a captain and a second daughter—who meet and fall in love. But both are penniless and both have conspiring relatives who intend to see them wedded to others...so of course the love story is bent on tragedy. Can it ever come out right?

Some days I'm just in the mood for a good old Victorian melodrama, and this one was exactly the right sort to keep me flipping pages.