After a violent fire and home invasion on a cold winter's night in 1834, Mayfair, London and three years in St. Rita's Asylum for Girls, Noriko Tanaka-Gillette seeks an answer to her parents' disappearances or murders. Coming to her rescue from the continent, is her internationally known detective auntie, Elizabeth Gillette. Through London's East End and along England's earliest established rail line to Boxmoor, Noriko follows where her detective aunt leads as she takes up her case and looks to solve a crime layered with secrets, deceptions, and the workings of a gang of smugglers led by a mysterious and elusive mastermind named, "Wild Tom."