"I'd gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom," shouts impulsive Rosamond Vivian to her heartless grandfather. Suddenly, on a dark night, a moody stranger shows up at Rosamond's isolated island home, ready to believe her when she says she will. Rosamond is taken captive by the enigmatic Philip Tempest, who seduces her with claims of love and freedom before whisking her away on Tempest's opulent yacht. A Long Fatal Love Pursuit was written for magazine serialisation in 1866, two years before the release of Little Women, and is a tale of dark love and passionate obsession that was deemed "too sensational" to be published during the author's lifetime. Its publication, which has been hidden among Louisa May Alcott's papers for more than a century, is a significant literary moment—a daring, enduring, and captivating novel.

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