1838: Alice Clarke, married to a sadistic man, longs for release from her marriage and to know the truth about her real parentage. Alice loves poetry and art but is tied to a life that quashes any form of self-expression. All that matters to her husband is making more money from building flimsy houses. A meeting with a mysterious stranger in Regent's Park hints at a heritage that is a thousand miles away from her dull and oppressive marriage.
As she struggles to find out more about her real parents, a hooded and veiled woman stalks her through the early Victorian squalor of London's Rookeries and the splendor of its Mayfair squares. A murder in Regent's Park reinforces the message that Alice is involved in a deadly game. But how is she linked to a brilliant and notorious group of English poets living in Italy sixteen years earlier?
As she struggles to find out more about her real parents, a hooded and veiled woman stalks her through the early Victorian squalor of London's Rookeries and the splendor of its Mayfair squares. A murder in Regent's Park reinforces the message that Alice is involved in a deadly game. But how is she linked to a brilliant and notorious group of English poets living in Italy sixteen years earlier?