BOOK ONE - MELBOURNE, 1878Verity Rainsburg is a widowed lady detective. Mindful of her impoverished childhood in an orphanage, she is shocked when Christopher Downham arrives unannounced at her office and demands rent arrears for properties she believes she owns. She and the handsome detective initially clash, but when she discovers that her late husband is alive, she finds solace in Christopher Downham's arms, and heartbreak at the realisation that...