John Eyre

Mimi Matthews, a USA Today bestselling author, reimagines Charlotte Brontë's classic as a supernatural Victorian gothic. In Yorkshire in 1843, John Eyre, a former schoolmaster whose reputation has been ruined, takes a post tutoring two unusual boys at Thornfield Hall. The house is steeped in shadow, with strange noises in the night, uncanny figures on the moor, and a silver mist that never lifts. Presiding over it is his employer, a widow who is both captivating and hard to read.

Sixteen months before John's arrival, Bertha Mason, an heiress, set out on an adventure that was never meant to include marriage. Yet she finds herself unable to resist Edward Rochester's otherworldly allure. Through letters and journal entries, she chronicles their marriage as it quickly unravels and as she slowly comes to suspect that Rochester is not the man he seems, and may not be human at all.

The story moves from a clifftop fortress on the Black Sea coast to a remote English country estate. John and Bertha must face hidden truths, peril, and the ongoing conflict between light and dark. The novel asks whether they can help one another overcome the demons of their pasts, or whether some evils are too strong to defeat.