Book description
For Katherine Donovan the slums of Dublin are a lonely place. Her
father, a pawnbroker, is the most hated man in the district, and
Katherine an outcast. Her only friend is tiny Ceppi Healy, underfed,
irrepressible and, the youngest in a neglected family of eight, as much
an emotional orphan as eighteen-year-old Katherine. Then, one night, the
unthinkable happens. Katherine's father is murdered, a victim of local
revenge for an act of cruelty even she couldn't have anticipated.
Fearing for her life, Katherine flees, taking with her the desperate
young Ceppi. Liverpool is her longed-for haven and, with the last of her
father's money, she rents a lodging house in a street decimated by the
sinking of the Titanic. But, far from finding a refuge for herself and
little girl she promised to protect, she realises she has put them into
the path of terrible danger...
