The Pickpocket Orphans
Iris Cole
Abandoned children rarely survive alone. Angel taught them how. Now she must pay the price.
Angel was only eight years old when her father disappeared. Now alone, Angel becomes entwined with a notorious criminal, Donald McIntyre, and by the age of eighteen, Angel is indispensable in training up street urchins for the art of light fingered theft for Donald’s gang of thieves.
Jimmy Milton is a young London Constable when he first encounters Angel who is distraught with grief, in the aftermath of a tragic accident. Moved by her anguish, Jimmy attempts to assuage her heartache doing what he can to gain her trust. Despite Angel’s skill in eluding him on the London streets, he manages to seek Angel out, and a sweet love begins to bloom.
When Donald learns of the constables interest in Angel, he sets in motion a heinous chain of events and Angel is forced into a dreadful predicament which threatens everything she holds dear. Angel must make a choice.
Will Angel be able to free her life from the clutches of a notorious criminal and find love with Jimmy? Will Jimmy’s love for Angel be able to bridge the divide of their different worlds? And will Angel ever discover the secret that Donald has been keeping? For fans of Dilly Court, and readers of historical romance.
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