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, dragging them into the blackest heart of a city where something more depraved than either of them could ever imagine is lurking. Laura Carlin left school at 16 to work in retail banking and it was only after leaving her job to write full-time that she discovered her passion for st. 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. She lives in Derbyshire with her civil partner, two children and a Siamese cat called Antigone.
Having left school at 16, she turned to writing after 28 years of working for a local bank. From the author of The Wicked Cometh comes a dark, page-turning tale of passion and romance in the darkest of places. Out of these shadows comes Hester White, a bright young woman who is desperate to escape the slums by any means possible. THE WICKED COMETH is Laura Carlin’s first novel. Scarcely a week passes without the occurrence of an incident of this type' - The Morning Herald, Tuesday 13 September 1831 Down the murky alleyways of London, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking place and the city's vulnerable poor are disappearing from the streets. Its author turned to writing after 28 years of working. ' 'This newspaper has taken note that the past month has been remarkable for the prevalence of cases where men, women and children are declared missing. The Wicked Cometh, publishing on 8th February 2018, is an historical novel set in an atmospheric London with a love story at its heart. 'We have no need to protect ourselves from the bad sortīecause we are the bad sort.
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