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She lost everything once. Then they took her daughter.
London, 1862. Unmarried, pregnant, and cast off by the man who ruined her, Gwen walks away from her comfortable life with a stolen handful of coins and a false name — and vanishes into the East End.
In the rookeries she learns what survival costs. Ten-hour days breathing poison at the match factory. A rented room whose key she doesn't hold. And the fierce, gruff friendship of Rose Jensen behind a green door on Cutter Row — the woman who teaches her how the poor stay alive.
Then, one February night, five-year-old Eve is taken from a locked room while Gwen lies too ill to wake. No record. No witness. No one who will lift a finger for a woman like her.
The search will cost Gwen her health, her face, and very nearly her life. It will bring her unexpected allies — including Harry Price, a quiet carpenter who mends what's broken and asks for nothing in return. But in a city without mercy, one thing cannot be taken from her: her refusal to stop looking.
A gritty, heart-wrenching Victorian saga of survival, sacrifice, and a mother's unbreakable love — perfect for readers of Dilly Court, Emma Hornby, and Kitty Neale.
Book One of The Cutter Row Saga.Gwen and Eve's story continues in Book Two.
Genre: Sagas
London, 1862. Unmarried, pregnant, and cast off by the man who ruined her, Gwen walks away from her comfortable life with a stolen handful of coins and a false name — and vanishes into the East End.
In the rookeries she learns what survival costs. Ten-hour days breathing poison at the match factory. A rented room whose key she doesn't hold. And the fierce, gruff friendship of Rose Jensen behind a green door on Cutter Row — the woman who teaches her how the poor stay alive.
Then, one February night, five-year-old Eve is taken from a locked room while Gwen lies too ill to wake. No record. No witness. No one who will lift a finger for a woman like her.
The search will cost Gwen her health, her face, and very nearly her life. It will bring her unexpected allies — including Harry Price, a quiet carpenter who mends what's broken and asks for nothing in return. But in a city without mercy, one thing cannot be taken from her: her refusal to stop looking.
A gritty, heart-wrenching Victorian saga of survival, sacrifice, and a mother's unbreakable love — perfect for readers of Dilly Court, Emma Hornby, and Kitty Neale.
Book One of The Cutter Row Saga.Gwen and Eve's story continues in Book Two.
Genre: Sagas
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