Heathcliff arrives at Wuthering Heights as a nameless orphan, loved fiercely by Catherine Earnshaw and despised by everyone else. Humiliated and spurned, he vanishes into the world — only to return wealthy, brooding, and carrying a grudge so vast it swallows two families whole. Catherine, meanwhile, has made the sensible choice of marrying Edgar Linton. Sensible choices, in this novel, have a way of destroying everyone. This is a tale of passion and vengeance that tears through generations, leaving the Yorkshire moors as the only witness.