Fortunes of Grace Hammer

Whitechapel 1888. Grace Hammer and her children live comfortably in Bell Lane their home a little oasis in the squalor of London s East End. They make their living picking the pockets of wealthy strangers foolish enough to venture there. But Grace s history is about to catch up with her. Out in the countryside Mr. Blunt rocks in his chair vowing furious retribution. He has never forgotten his scarlet treasure or the coquettish young woman who stole it from him. Fast-paced racy and reminiscent of Charles Dickens s Oliver Twist Grace Hammer depicts nineteenth-century London amid corruption and a plague of poverty peopled by orphans harlots and petty thieves. Sara Stockbridge introduces an unlikely heroine in Grace Hammer a captivating young matriarch in a complicated web of intrigue deceit loyalties and betrayal. Originally published in hardcover as Grace Hammer.