Sally Lockhart, trying to put her troubled earlier behind her after her fiancé’s death, has settled into a comfortable life with her daughter, Harriet, her career, and her London friends. But her globe comes crashing down around her when a total stranger claims to become both her hubby and Harriet’s dad, casting doubt on her spotless reputation. Looking for the answers to this terrible dilemma, Sally realizes with developing horror that there surely is a guiding hands behind all this deceit; a person who hates her therefore passionately that he provides dedicated years to bringing about her ruin. She’s no choice but to flee with her child in to the crime-ridden slums of London’s East End. All of a sudden it isn’t only Sally’s reputation that’s in danger.