Edmond Dantès has everything before him: a promotion to ship's captain, a wedding to the woman he loves, and the bright future he's earned. But three jealous men, coveting what he has, conspire to destroy him with a single lie, and on the day of his betrothal he is seized and locked away without trial in the grim island fortress of the Château d'If. There, in the depths of despair, a fellow prisoner offers him learning, friendship, and the key to a secret that could change everything. Dumas's sweeping 1844 epic sets an innocent man on the long road toward reckoning.