the wicked cometh the addictive historical mystery laura carlin

Hester and Rebekah are tested to their limits as they are drawn into investigating the wickedness that pervades and stalks those in London in their efforts to discover the horrifying truth whilst surrounded by a web of deception and facing great danger. Hester is warned to leave the household before harm befalls her. The two women develop a close relationship, although it soon becomes clear that the Brock family past festers with murky secrets. Rebekah is an intelligent, strong, determined and independent woman, who takes Hester under her wing, providing tuition to a grateful Hester.

Hester acquires the post of companion to Calder's sister, Rebekah. The carriage owner, Calder Brock offers medical attention and sweeps her away to stay at his country home. After being injured in a horse and carriage accident, Hester finds herself in a more fortuitous position. Dark nightmarish deeds are taking place as poor folk disappear in the city, but little attention is paid, after all, it impacts only those of little consequence. In this distinctly Dickensian world, the young Hester White resides in the slums, she has lost her parents, and is in search of any route that will take her out of her dire circumstances. Laura Carlin pulls us into the atmospheric, overflowing poverty, and the filthy, disease infested alleys and backstreets of 1830s London. But their trust in each other will be tested as a web of deceit begins to unspool, dragging them into the blackest heart of a city where something more depraved than either of them could ever imagine is lurking.

Hester and Rebekah find themselves crossing every boundary they've ever known in pursuit of truth, redemption and passion.

But whispers from her past slowly begin to poison her new life and both she and Rebekah are lured into the most sinister of investigations. When Hester is thrust into the world of the aristocratic Brock family, she leaps at the chance to improve her station in life under the tutelage of the fiercely intelligent and mysterious Rebekah Brock. Out of these shadows comes Hester White, a bright young woman who is desperate to escape the slums by any means possible. Down the murky alleyways of London, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking place and no one is willing to speak out on behalf of the city's vulnerable poor as they disappear from the streets.

The wicked cometh the addictive historical mystery laura carlin