Would you stand by your childhood best friend if they turned out to be a murderer? The unputdownable tale of passion, friendship
... Dismissed from her position as housemaid under a cloud of misunderstanding, Tilly True is forced to return home.
Dismissed from her position as housemaid under a cloud of misunderstanding, Tilly True is forced to return home. But Tilly is determined to make something of her life &, rather than admit the truth to her poverty-stricken family, she sets out once more in search of employment. Her journey takes her to the London law courts, a grim parsonage in one of the most notorious parts of the East End & a house of ill-repute. But when she falls for the dangerous charms of Barnaby Palgrave, Tilly soon finds that her troubles have only just begun...