Haunted by the frontlines, Doctor Louise Vergne sharpens her teeth until her words cut deeper than her scalpel. No matter how fervently she scrubs, her healing hands remain soaked in blood. To atone for her sins, she devotes every waking moment to her woman's clinic. Charity demands a price, and to pay it, she stitches up the wounded on Alfie Solomons' payroll, balancing the razor edge of salvation and damnation. Her dealings with Alfie Solomons inevitably drag her into the orbit of Thomas Shelby, Birmingham's very own devil, who is relentlessly expanding his empire in the fallout of Grace Burgess' betrayal. Will Louise's sharp tongue draw him nearer or provoke him to draw his pistol?