A Sweet Sinner (1897) is a novel by Hume Nisbet. Published at the
height of his career as a leading ghost story writer of the Victorian
era, A Sweet Sinner is a tale of romance and temptation written in the
tradition of the sensation novel. Largely unknown by today's audience,
Hume Nisbet was a versatile writer whose experiences as an artist and
traveler inform his wide-ranging body of work. "Miss Kate Keath is her
name, the only child and heiress of a wealthy and retired Australian
squatter, who for the past twelve months has taken up his abode in the
suburbs of his most ancient, picturesque, and historical Castletown.
Miss Kate was a native of New South Wales, and till her fifteenth year
had passed all her days in that sunny climate..." After an idyllic youth
in Australia, Miss Kate Keath moves to Scotland to complete her
education. Although she shows little promise as a painter, her teacher
Jamie Glen finds himself drawn to her remarkable beauty and endeavors to
show patience to her always. At her family's castle in the
heather-streaked highlands, their lesson is interrupted by the sudden
arrival of Havelock Gordon, a handsome young man with mysterious
intentions and palpable contempt for Jamie. With a beautifully designed
cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Hume
Nisbet's A Sweet Sinner is a classic of Victorian fiction reimagined
for modern readers.
