The Lustre Of The Moon

July, 1849. London is a melting pot of the rich and the poor, truths and lies, the loyal and the traitorous, and the people who just mingle among them all without belonging to any one particular group.

The bastard orphan son of an beggar girl and a Chinese opium dealer, Alexander Dawson has been searching for a way to place his mark on the world since he was old enough to talk. Having been unable to keep any previous jobs for longer than a month, his future suddenly started looking hopeful when he landed the job as a gardener for the prestigious Grecian household. The job is simple - pulling out weeds and checking on the roses in the summer and shovelling snow off the path in the winter.

However, as Alexander gets closer with a member of the MacKimmies, and family of Scottish immigrants who live in near the Grecians, he soon learns that what the MacKimmies have lost in wealth, they have gained in secrets.

Then the murder of a prostitute pulls Alexander into the city's underbelly. But when life is so cheap, why does one death matter? Because making history during the world's peak of invention and industrialism is a lucrative business, and some people cannot afford to miss out, whatever the price.