Publisher's Synopsis
It's 1959 and Lynsey Quinn has done the unthinkable. She's got herself pregnant by a cop. Rejected by her criminal family, she will pay the price for her betrayal, and so too will her daughter. At the age of eleven, Helen is returned to the clan. Hated by her grandfather, loved only by her uncle, she struggles to fit into a world she doesn't understand. As warring factions battle for control of the East End, tragedy is about to strike again. How can she survive? And who can she trust as the murderous past comes back to haunt her?
