When a book begins with a contrivance, it’s a bad sign. She accepts, but with the caveat that he also introduce her to polite society so she may find a new patron for the home. Seeing how easily Temperance moves around the area, and knowing that the home is in dire financial straits, he offers her money in exchange for her guidance around the slum. Giles for a brutal murderer and he needs help navigating the streets and the people of the dangerous slum. Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire, is searching St. Not long after returning home, however, she discovers that the frightening man has let himself into her sitting room and has a proposition for her that she can’t turn down. Along the way, she overhears a scuffle in an alley and ends up fleeing from a frightening man with long white hair and a voluminous black cloak who she saw standing over an inert bleeding man. She’s on her way back to the foundling home she runs with her younger brother, returning with her maidservant and an infant they pried from the arms of a dead young mother. The book opens with the widow Temperance Dews wending her way through the dank and dangerous streets of St. What an anachronistic, ungrammatical, unfinished book that was. I'll probably never win another book through Goodreads' First Reads again with this review.
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