A Wayward Man: A Prequel To A Dangerous Invitation (The Rookery Rogues) - Plot & Excerpts
Steam roiled out from the chimneys in thick gray tendrils, obscuring the moon. But that was expected when London had exchanged reliance on cottage laborers hunched over looms for churning machinery and ready-made clothes. The variable speed baton power loom sounded to Thaddeus Knight like the devil's own calling card. Clack-clack-clack the looms went in their steady jig of brimstone and hellfire. Once, he had thought the industrialization of England was a sign of progress. Country folk migrating to London would build a new social order, one free of the restraints of low income and hypocritical aristocracy. Perhaps he was still an idealist. He wanted badly to believe that the work he did as a Sergeant in the H-Division of the Metropolitan Police Force was meaningful. He was making a difference in the lives of those doomed to the rookeries, or so he told his mother every time she questioned why he chose to spend his days patrolling the streets of the East End with only a truncheon for protection.
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