Though poor, plain, and unconnected, Charlotte Bronte possesses a passionate side which she reveals only in her writing. Her novel, Jane Eyre, stands among literature's most beloved works. Living a secluded life in Yorkshire, Charlotte Bronte dreams of a real story as fiery as the ones she creates. But it is in the pages of her diary where Charlotte exposes her deepest feeling and desires - and the truth about her life, her scandalous secret passion for the man she can never have... and her intense, dramatic relationship with the man she comes to love, the enigmatic Arthur Bell Nicholls.