At ten years old, Fanny Price was sent from her impoverished Portsmouth family to live with her wealthy aunt and uncle, the Bertrams, at Mansfield, their Connecticut estate. Now twenty, she is still — by design — the poor relation. Too grateful to object, too observant not to see everything, too principled to pretend. When the glamorous Crawford siblings arrive and the entire Bertram family begins to unravel under their influence, Fanny is the only one watching clearly. Edmund Bertram, the one cousin who has always treated her as a person, is falling for the brilliant, faithless Mary Crawford. Fanny is going to have to decide whether constancy is a virtue or just a wound she has learned to call one.
