When young Ned Farrier is committed to the Shadwell Workhouse, he is thrust into a regime of harsh punishment and corruption orchestrated by the local Beadle, who has spent years enriching himself at the expense of widows and orphans, making several enemies in the process. Beadle Hewlett has earmarked Ned and his friends George and Ben as prime recruits for his unsavoury trade, but a daring plan triggers a chain of events that ultimately leads to their finding a new life on the sailing barges that ply the Thames Estuary. Meanwhile, Mick Howell, Ex-Master's Mate of the British Royal Navy, is determined to avenge his brother's suffering at the hands of the Beadle's partners in crime. Mick and his friends join forces with the Reverend Mr Short, Rector of St Anne's Limehouse, to bring the Beadle and his cohorts to justice and to help his victims build new lives.

Author Biography

Born in Cape Town and educated at Selborne College in East London, South Africa, Patrick G. Cox is a published technical author and lecturer, and a retired firefighter after thirty-six years of soot, heat, blood, sweat, and laughter. He is a Licensed Minister in the Church of England and has three adult children and three grandchildren of whom he is enormously proud. Cox is the author of A Baltic Affair, Limehouse Boys, Magnus Patricius, and the Harry Heron Adventure Series, a collection of books centered on a trio of shipmates plucked from the HMS Spartan during the Napoleonic Wars and thrust into an unknown future. Janet Angelo has been a book editor since 2005, and is the founder and publisher of IndieGo Publishing, a hybrid-indie publishing company she formed in 2011 to help independent authors achieve their publishing goals and dreams. She has several repeat clients and enjoys working in collaboration with her authors to publish top-quality books.