
Her mother's dying request obliges Mary Yellan to make a grim journey across bleak Cornish moorland to Jamaica Inn the home of her Aunt Patience & her overbearing husband Joss Merlyn With the coachman's warning echoing in her mind & affected by the inn's brooding power Mary is thwarted in her intention to help her aunt She finds herself drawn unwillingly into the misdeeds of Joss & his accomplices & even more disturbing are her feelings for a man she dare not trust Jamaica Inn is a dark & gripping gothic tale that will remind readers of two other great classics Jane Eyre & Wuthering Heights