Julia Justiss

PROLOGUEYorkshire, England March, 1895The first time Marissa saw the stranger, she was not quite ten years old. But she knew from the moment she saw him that she'd never forget him.It was cold that day. It was always cold in the small coalmining town, for the fires were meager, and they never...

PrologueSoundlessly Laura crept through the dark hall. Having rehearsedand usedthe route before, she knew every carpet, chair and cupboard in the passageway, each twist of the twenty-nine steps down the servants' stair to the back door. Even were their old butler Hobbins and his wife not snoring in...