A POSITION as a lady's companion promises to be the making of young Lizzie Martin when she arrives in London in 1864 but dogs her every footstep from the start.

Outside the station she encounters a wagon carrying the remains of a young woman and on reaching her new home she learns that her predecessor, Madelaine Hexham, had disappeared unexpectedly.

Longing to learn the truth, Lizzie ventures into deadly peril with only one helper at hand - Inspector Benjamin Ross, who has a positive loathing for injustice.

An atmospheric, thought-provoking crime thriller that reveals danger in the drawing room as well as on the sordid Victorian streets.