When Evie Kilgaren takes over the running of the back office at Skinner & Son's haulage yard, she has no idea she is walking
...1910 Liverpool Docks.
Ruby Swift is a hard-working, straight-talking woman of substance who does not suffer fools
Evie Kilgaren is a fighter. Abandoned by her mother & with her father long gone, she is left to raise her siblings in dockside
... Cat has made a mess & she won’t tidy it up
- no matter how many times Dog asks her.Â
Can Dog convince Cat, a giraffe
...London, 1883. The controversial practice of mesmerism, with its genuine practitioners & its fraudulent chancers, has hypnotised the city. Miss Cordelia Preston, a beautiful, ageing out-of-work actress terrified of returning to the poverty of her childhood, suddenly emerges as a Lady Phreno-Mesmerist. In her candle-lit Bloomsbury basement she learns to harness her talent - in completely unexpected ways. But success is fragile when you have a past filled with secrets. On a wintry, moonlit night a body is found in Bloomsbury Square, & what began as an audacious subterfuge erupts into a scandal. Cordelia's past is revealed, bringing not only heartache but terror - & the mystery of a cloaked figure who waits for her in the shadowy London streets.