Publisher's Synopsis
Twelve-year-old Eliza Bragg has known little in life but the cold, comfortless banks of the Thames. Living above her uncle's chandlery she has grown accustomed to a life of penury and servitude. Her only comfort is the love and protection of her older brother Bart, but one day Bart accidentally kills a man and is forced to flee to New Zealand, leaving Eliza to fend for herself on the streets of London. Challenges abound, first in the shape of the older, yet gentlemanly shape of Dr Freddie Prince, and later in the devilish charms of Brandon Miller
