Anna Lisle lives in Oxfordshire, England. She studied English Literature at Oxford University and has always had a strong interest in the nineteenth century.
1822: Byron's young illegitimate daughter dies in an Italian Convent, sent away from the mother who adored her.
1838: young Alice Clarke, married to a brutal man, is pursued on London's streets by a mysterious Greek man and a cloaked woman. Alice is illicitly in love with a sea captain sailing the perilous route to India around Africa. When he vanishes on a voyage, her pursuers draw her into an increasingly tense game of cat and mouse, played out between the early Victorian squalor of London's Rookeries and the splendour of its Mayfair squares. A murder in Regent's Park reinforces the message that Alice is involved in a very dangerous game. But how is she linked to a brilliant and notorious group of English poets living in Italy sixteen years earlier?
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1822: Byron's young illegitimate daughter dies in an Italian convent, sent away from the mother who adored her. 1838: young Alice Clarke, unhappily married to a brutal man, is pursued on London's streets by a mysterious Greek man and a cloaked woman.
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Shattered by a recent bereavement, Minna and Tom retreat to the Dorset coast to try and cope with their loss, but the discovery of a human skeleton on the beach plunges Minna into a mystery which will consume her for months to come.
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