The Rat-Catcher’s Daughter
Lilywhite Boys, Book 0.5
Music-hall singer Miss Christiana is in serious debt, and serious trouble. She owes more than she can pay to a notorious criminal, and now he plans to make an example of her. There’s no way out.
But Christiana has an admirer. Stan Kamarzyn has watched her sing for a year and he doesn’t want to see her get hurt. Stan’s nobody special–just a dodgy bloke from Bethnal Green–but he’s got useful friends. Friends who can get a girl out of trouble, for a price. Christiana’s not sure what it will cost her…
The two slowly reach an understanding. But Christiana is no criminal, and she can’t risk getting mixed up with the law. What will happen when Stan’s life as the fence for the notorious Lilywhite Boys brings trouble to his doorstep?
A trans f/m asexual romance short story (16,000 words), set two years before Any Old Diamonds. Available in print as part of the anthology A Pocketful of Lies
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Cover art by Lennan Adams at Lexiconic Design
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Misgendering, threat of violence towards trans character (not specifically transphobic). On-page violence. References to acephobia and off-page violence against women.
“Manages to thread a lovely romance in-between the mortal peril.”
