Publisher's Synopsis
One night, in the Greenwich Royal Naval Hospital, nurse Hester Monk is approached by a terrified girl. She's from a hidden ward of children, all subject to frequent blood-letting, and her brother is dying. While William Monk's River Police fight to keep London safe from gun-runners, Hester takes on a new role at the hospital, helping to administer a secretive new treatment. But she slowly realises that this experimental cure is putting the children's lives at risk. Attempting to protect them, she comes under threat from a rich, powerful, and very ill man who is desperate to survive...
