Deal, Kent, 1812
Eighteen-year-old Winnie Lennicker yearns for a peaceful life as a respectable married woman.
When Hannah is invited into the First-Class carriage of the London to Penzance train by Jinni, she walks into a spider's web.
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August 1845 in New York; enter the dark, unforgiving city underworld of the legendary Five Points... After a fire decimates a swathe of lower Manhattan, & following years of passionate political dispute, New York City at long last forms an official Police Department.? That same summer, the great potato famine hits Irel&. These events will change the city of New York for ever. Timothy Wilde hadn't wanted to be a copper star.? On the night of August 21st, on his way home from the Tombs defeated & disgusted, he is plotting his resignation, when a young girl who has escaped from a nearby brothel, crashes into him; she wears only a nightdress & is covered from head to toe in blood. Searching out the truth in the child's wild stories, Timothy soon finds himself on the trail of a brutal killer, seemingly hell bent on fanning the flames of anti-Irish immigrant sentiment & threatening chaos in a city already in the midst of social upheaval. But his fight for justice could cost him the woman he loves, his brother & ultimately his life...