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From opium-drenched
hovels and rat-infested warehouses of Limehouse to the glistening
facades of West End mansions, a woman—known only as Sophy—searches for
her identity. But the mist-shrouded alleys of Victorian England hold
grave dangers for the friendless.
Captain Edward Seymour, the
last of a long line of distinguished Royal Navy officers, is searching,
as well. Returning from sea to find that his niece has disappeared, he
begins combing every inn and hellhole of the city's darkest corners,
desperately hoping to find some trace of the girl. No one knows
the streets of London like Charles Dickens, a young novelist with a
reformer's soul, and Sophy and Edward turn to him for help. Flush with
his early literary successes, he is working hard to use his knowledge of
the city and his newfound fame to right some of the social ills that
plague Victorian England. But with each step they take toward the truth, Death draws ever closer...
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