Dark Satanic Mill

Cheshire 1813. A tale set against the turbulent backdrop of Luddite riots and the final years of the Napoleonic Wars. Robbie Enright is a teenage orphan indentured at a remote cotton-spinning mill called Providence owned by the eminent Samuel Stead. In this highly-successful enterprise reliant on child labour all is not as it seems however. Several of the female hands have disappeared supposedly escaping from the mill’s harsh discipline. Robbie suspecting a terrible secret is forced to contend with the mill’s authorities not least Titus Bredlow the sadistic overlooker. Bright and courageous Robbie has no resources and only one friend: Ned Wainwright a notorious Luddite and a wanted man. Against the odds he is determined to expose the truth – not least because he’s fallen in love with the mill’s newest arrival – pretty Mary Pepper.