The Devil in the Marshalsea (Thomas Hawkins #1)

by Antonia Hodgson

‘Your heart will break in here, or it will turn to stone. It’s your choice.’

‘I’m a gentleman, madam. I do as little as possible.’

‘Grief will drag you to some dark places,’ he said at last. ‘But guilt is like a whip upon your back, urging you on.

She survived through her own wit and courage and nothing else.

The only free men in this world are idiots and fools.

‘Ambition and friendship are poor bedfellows,’

‘But you cannot deny that you left me. Well, I’m glad of it. You taught me a valuable lesson and now I’m free of you.’