London 1881. Lily Raynor owner of the World's End Investigation Bureau is growing increasingly worried. Work is drying up finances are tight and she cannot find enough for her sole employee Felix Wilbraham to do. So when schoolteacher Georgiana Long arrives with a worrying tale of runaway pupils it seems like the answer to her prayers. Disguised as the new Assistant Matron Lily joins the Shardlowes School staff. But there are undercurrents at Shardlowes and the shadowy powerful men who fund the school's less fortunate pupils loom larger as Felix's own investigations unfold. Felix can't shake off his fear that Lily is in danger - and soon his premonitions come frighteningly true . . .

Part of the The World's End Bureau Victorian Mystery Series series.