For Katherine Donovan, the Dublin slums are a lonely place and she longs to leave. So when her hated father is found murdered, a victim of local revenge for an act of cruelty, she unearths his money and flees, in fear of her life. She takes her young friend Ceppie Hely with her to Liverpool where, after finding a temporary haven with the Boland family, Katherine uses the last of her money to rent a ramshackle lodge. But far from finding refuge for herself and the little girl she promises to protect, she has put them into the path of terrifying danger.
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