'Held me completely in its thrall until the very last line’ SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN


‘A well-researched and thoroughly convincing page-turner’ LAURA SHEPPERSON



A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH




A TIMES BESTSELLER




SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DEBUT CROWN PRIZE



London, 1878. A body emerges from the River Thames, suspected to be the missing child of the MP Ralph Gethin.


Four months earlier. Harriet is a young maid newly employed at Finton Hall, where she finds herself entranced by her famous master Ralph Gethin, and his glamorous wife Clara. But Clara, though captivating, is erratic. Ralph is strangely absent. And their beautiful belongings seem to tell terrible stories.


Unable to ignore her unease, Harriet sets out to discover their secrets. What she discovers could cost Harriet everything, even her freedom…