Waiting For Death: In a town of tangled secrets, youthful folly and suffocating duty threaten to unravel the most fragile of hearts.

In the provincial town of Middlemarch, every action casts a long, inescapable shadow. In Book 3: Waiting for Death, George Eliot pulls the threads of her sweeping masterpiece tighter, revealing the devastating consequences of pride, debt, and suffocating marriages.

Young Fred Vincy's careless gambling and disastrous horse-trading have cornered him. To save himself, he has risked the financial ruin of the Garth family-the very people who have loved him most. Meanwhile, a sudden, deadly outbre...