Rose: A Novel

The year is 1872 The place is Wigan England a coal town where rich mine owners live lavishly alongside miners no better than slaves Into this dark complicated world comes Jonathan Blair who has accepted a commission to find a missing manWhen he begins his search every road leads back to one woman a haughty vixenish pit girl named Rose With her fiery hair and skirts pinned up over trousers she cares nothing for a society that calls her unnatural scandalous eroticAs Rose and Blair circle one another first warily then with the heat of mutual desire Blair loses his balance And the lull induced by Roses sensual touch leaves him unprepared for the bizarre soulscorching truth