Mr. Rochester by Sarah Shoemaker

Told in his voice, this reimagining follows a troubled English gentleman whose painful upbringing and impulsive choices lead to a secret-haunted marriage and a magnetic, fraught attachment to a young governess; through an intimate, often unreliable confession the familiar gothic events are reframed into a study of desire, power, guilt, and the possibility of redemption, asking readers to reconsider culpability and the stories people tell to excuse themselves.