Rivetingly retold for today's readers, Charlotte Bronte's classic story of thwarted love and dark secret remains as fresh and exciting as the day it was first written.A poor orphan, Jane Eyre has no one to protect her from bullying relations and schoolmasters. Determined to change her luck, she becomes a governess and settles happily into a new life at Thornfield and its owner, Mr. Rochester, are hiding secret from her. Whose mecacing laugh does she keep hearing? How did the fire start that almost cost Mr. Rochester his life? And why are there screms in the night?