As Hawks Mill teeters on the brink, Lena Pemberton stands at the helm of a revolution, challenging every norm Victorian society has set.
Lena Pemberton was raised to be a picture-perfect lady - to adorn a man's arm and fade into the background. Her father, a powerful figure in the ruthless textile industry, has ensured that she is matched to a man worthy of her.Lena's world shatters when she uncovers the dark secrets her father has concealed beneath his success.
Alone, she must navigate the treacherous waters where others believe a woman has no place at the helm. Her only hope lies with the millworkers, who urge her to seek the aid of an enigmatic engineer, Henry Wickham. He is a man of guarded emotions and a mysterious past. Lena needs his expertise to rescue the struggling mill, but Henry has encountered her kind before - profit first, safety last.
Libby Baker, an orphan apprentice, is approaching the end of her indenture at the mill. She yearns for a life beyond the clattering looms and unforgiving overseers. As the oldest in the Apprentice's House, the girls look to her for support. Who will protect them from the men who seek to ruin them when she is gone?
Thrown together by circumstance, they must all work together. They embark on a daring mission to complete a crucial order that will save them all. But shocking secrets surface, threatening to shatter all that they have worked towards.
Where threads of deceit unravel, a new hope is woven. But will the dark ghosts of the mill come back to haunt them?
Genre: Sagas
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