The novel “The Second Wife” is the story of a second marriage of a wealthy aristocrat.
Romantic and mysterious events of the novel “The Second Wife” by the popular German novelist Eugenia Marlitt take place in Germany. Countess Liana, a representative of a very noble but impoverished family, is—at her mother’s insistence—married to the rich, titled, handsome, but unloved and not in love with her Count Meinau. What will prove stronger—love or duty, pride or submission, surrender to fate or a sense of self-worth? Only at the very end of this captivating book will it become clear.
Eugenia Marlitt (Eugenia Ion) (1825–1887) was a German writer, author of a number of novels very popular in the 19th century.