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And worse is still to come as Letty’s wealthy family history is revealed, prompting a hitherto unknown cousin to send his man to search out and kill her - but he’s not the only one looking for Letty.        Anne’s writing depicts the struggle for survival where the odds are stacked against the underprivileged. She brings to life the conditions of the time in which she writes, not of the rich, but of the poor. With an alternately sympathetic and honest look at poverty, the story never lets up the exciting pace, thundering to an end nobody can be certain about. 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When Sarah arrives back in Plymouth she finds that her mother is now living with her two small brothers in a lodging house and that she no longer recognises the mother that she had always been afraid of. Although Sarah gets work, she is constantly at the drunken mercy of her mother and finds that her young brothers are running amock in the town, stealing food.    What has caused the downfall of her family and how can Sarah save them in a town where a murderer is on the loose killing women at random? 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Out of character, Martha takes a mother’s revenge but soon realizes that Beemer is not a forgiving man. To escape him, she takes her remaining children to London where she hides in the dark labyrinth of the East End’s narrow lanes and alley ways. But is she safe there from Beemer’s revenge?    Emma, Martha’s eldest daughter, finds employment at Claydon House. But it is soon obvious to Emma that the staff live in fear of their cold calculating Mistress, that the Master is conspicuously absent and that the last maid has left without saying why. 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