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 Eighteen-year-old Irene Angel lives with her parents in a
tiny room above the shop where her crippled mother ekes out a living selling pickles
and sauces, whilst her charming but feckless father Billy gambles away what little
money they do manage to earn. And it is all Irene can do to keep the family together.
Billy's addiction soon leads him into trouble. Despite having been brought up to
fear and distrust the law, Irene finds herself forced to collaborate with the police
in order to save her father from ruin. But Billy's errant ways finally catch up
with him and he is imprisoned in Newgate jail. With her mother away from home, a
desperate Irene has little choice but to seek help once more from Inspector Edward
Kent - her sworn enemy - for only she can clear her father's name and reunite her
family.
Read the first chapter here...
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