Herman Melville 
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade 

Pierre Glendinning is 19 years old and the heir of an old manor in the state of New York. Although already engaged to Lucy Tartan, he is more than thrilled when he meets his illegitimate half-sister Isabel Banford, a very mysterious person. He struggles on to find a solution to give her the proper share of the heritage without discrediting his father’s name.