Secrets & Saviours

A Vacuum Filled. A Threat Renewed.

The early years of 1800 hold out great promise and hope for Lewes midwife Esther Coad and her young ward Beth, including marriage to the town’s coroner and physician. But storm clouds soon gather in the guise of bitter family discord and the rise of a new generation of rogues and cut-throats.

When Esther is given the opportunity to help destroy, once and for all, both the Kent and Sussex smuggling gangs, she jumps at the chance, little knowing the price she will pay until her life is held on a knife-edge with no rescue in sight.

“To him I was just a hostage to fortune, a bargaining tool. If not that, why would he keep me alive?”