The Winter Rose begins in London in the summer of 1900. It has been
twelve years since a dark, murderous figure stalked the alleys and
courts of Whitechapel. Time has passed, places and people have
changed. And yet, East London is still poor, still brutal, still a
shadow city to its western twin. & nbsp; Reformers, moved by
the plight of the poor, work to better their conditions. Among them
is an idealistic young woman named India Selwyn-Jones. Newly
graduated from medical school, India joins a practice in
Whitechapel and tends to its people. With the help of her
influential fianc?????Freddie Lytton, an up-and-coming Liberal
MP???she works to shut down the area??'s opium dens that destroy
both body and soul. Her selfless activities better her patients???
lives and bring her immense gratification, but unfortunately, they
also bring her into direct conflict with East London??'s ruling
crime lord???Sid Malone. Some of the characters from Donnelly's
Booksense pick, & nbsp; The Tea Rose, including Fiona and Joe,
appear as minor characters in The Winter Rose, and Malone, as
readers of The Tea Rose will remember, is Fiona Finnegan??'s lost
brother. Born Charlie Finnegan, he was separated from his family
after his mother was murdered and survived the hard streets of East
London by becoming a criminal. India is not good for business and
at first, Malone wants her out. But against all odds, India and Sid
fall in love. Different in nearly every way, they share one thing
in common???they???re both wounded souls.Their love is impossible
and they know it, yet they cling to it desperately. Lytton,
India??'s fianc??, will stop at nothing to marry India and gain her
family??'s fortune. Fractious criminal underlings and rivals
conspire against Sid. When Sid is finally betrayed by one of his
own, he must flee London to save his life. Mistakenly thinking him
dead, India, pregnant and desperate, marries Freddie to provide a
father for hers and Sid??'s child. India and Sid must each make a
terrible sacrifice???a sacrifice that will change them both
forever. One that will lead them to other lives, and other
places???and perhaps???one distant, bittersweet day???back to each
other.
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