Sarah Aldridge

"Elizabeth Beaufort: beautiful, impoverished scholar who has eked out a living as a teacher until deafness and a scandal over a book about love intervene. Her lover, Hannah Morgan: ex-Army nurse and teacher of the young who learned as a farm child that she had incredible powers - that she could "see" the future in ways others could not. Daisy Rawles: orphaned niece of the wife of a wealthy scoundrel, whose destiny - marriage to the first available...

When the police bring Mary Brown, an old street woman dressed in rags before judge Alsia Caneron, she sits silent and unresponsive to the questions put before her. Alisa, deeply perturbed by this enlists the aid of Camilla, a social worker. Together, they help reveal Mary Brown's past as an accomplished opera singer. Could she be the mysterious opera star Magdalena who disappeared three years before after the death of her lifelong companion?