Anna Katharine Green's Cynthia Wakeham's Money opens in a village thick with rumor, old houses, and half-buried resentments, where romance and detection move side by side. When lawyer Frank Etheridge arrives in Marston and reunites with his quieter, more guarded college friend Edgar Sellick, he is immediately drawn into a web of unease surrounding an eerie poplar-lined house, a scarred beauty named Hermione Cavanagh, and a mystery Edgar seems determined not to name. Frank's real errand soon emerges: he has been summoned to the decaying Wakeham house to draft the will of the dying Cynthia Wakeham. There he finds a frightened widow, a suspiciously eager brother, Hiram Huckins, and a household charged with greed, coercion, and secrecy. As Frank insists on proper legal procedure and tries to determine Cynthia's true wishes, the novel deepens into a gothic puzzle of hidden motives, family conflict, and the possibility that someone is being manipulated for money or property. At the same time, Frank's growing love for Hermione offers a fragile counterpoint of hope. Her brief emergence into the garden hints at buried suffering and possible freedom, but her confession and the mysterious packet she entrusts to him promise that the darkest truths are still to come. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.