The House of Seven Gables

Set in a haunted New England mansion with a dark history of fraud and witchcraft, the story follows Hepzibah Pyncheon, a dignified yet impoverished woman. To support her brother Clifford, who is about to be released from prison after thirty years for murder, she opens a shop in a side room. The narrative explores themes of familial obligation, redemption, and the lingering effects of past sins within the shadowy walls of their ancestral home.