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Rose

The American adventurer Jonathan Blair has been chased by scandal out of West Africa to the stranger land of Victorian England. Gin-soaked and shaking from malaria, he must travel to Wigan, a town in the darkest part of England, to solve the mysterious disappearance of a young cleric. Nineteenth-century Wigan is two worlds: On the surface is the serene land of the moneyed, but in the coal pits that reach below the surface lurks a separate world where miners eke out their short, violent lives. The missing cleric, John Maypole, has crossed the live between these worlds. He is engaged to Charlotte, the daughter of the bishop who owns the mine. But Charlotte is as cold as ice, and Maypole seems to have had a fatal encounter with the opposite sort of woman, an earthy, unforgettable pit girl - Rose. In searching for Maypole, Blair finds himself involved not only with the lives of the miners who make the bishop rich and the pit girls who are the scandal of the country, but also with his own shadowy origins.

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