In Emily Bronte’s classic English novel, a young man named Heathcliff flees his adopted home at Wuthering Heights with no money and a broken heart. Three years later he returns, ferociously changed into a rich and ruthless gentleman. . Heathcliff: The Lost Years reveals how the romantic hero of Wuthering Heights accomplished this remarkable transition. Driven by a passionate need to return to his first love, his odyssey takes him to the seaport of Liverpool, on a slave trader to Africa, to swashbuckling adventures on the sea, to the fleshpots and slave markets of Jamaica, and finally to London where he meets the woman who may have the keys to all he desires.