On the French frontier in 1870, the nurse Mercy Merrick, a woman with a disgraced past, shelters Grace Roseberry, a traveller bound for England. When a German shell appears to kill Grace, Mercy takes her papers and her place as companion to Lady Janet Roy in London, and builds a new life that is threatened when Grace comes back.
Collins’s daring novel about a fallen woman’s redemption, with all his skill for suspense. Download the free EPUB.