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By P. B. Ryan

ISBN-10: 1452406324

ISBN-13: 9781452406329

Boston, 1868: The sunrise of the Gilded Age, an period of burgeoning trade and invention, of unbelievable new fortunes and indulgent excess—for a few. Born into dismal poverty, younger Nell Sweeney scratches via on her wits and little else till fortune blesses her with a place as nursery governess to the fabulously filthy rich Hewitts. yet she quickly learns that gruesome secrets and techniques lurk underneath the skin in their gold-plated world.

The Hewitts’ eldest son, William, a former Union military conflict health care provider and the black sheep of the family members, was once said to have died 3 years prior to in a infamous accomplice legal camp. yet one snowy February afternoon, his mom and dad study that he's, actually, nonetheless alive—and in prison for having murdered a guy whereas intoxicated on opium. Infuriated via his son’s deception and confident of his guilt, August Hewitt forbids his spouse from coming to Will’s reduction, so she begs Nell to assist exonerate him. Nell unearths that she needs to delve into the type of darkish and treacherous underworld she concept she’d left a ways in the back of if she is to unearth the reality sooner than the hangman’s noose tightens round William Hewitt’s throat.

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