Desperate... Left to raise seven siblings after her mother's death, 17 year-old Emma Chambers faces a daily battle with hunger & her father's drunken rages. Until she is offered a way out. If she marries landlord Horace Bell
- twenty years her senior
- Emma can swap abject poverty for comfort. Degraded... But Horace soon reveals his true, sadistic colours. Emma is thankful when he eventually abandons her
- until she realises she is again penniless & in peril. A chance meeting plants an idea in her mind. All her life, men have taken advantage of her. Now it's time to turn the tables. In danger... Years later, & Emma has built up a successful business on South London's meanest streets. But then tragedy strikes
- & it becomes clear that someone has been watching Emma, intent on revenge...