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Boston, 1868: The dawn of the Gilded Age group, a time of burgeoning business and technology, of unimaginable new fortunes and luxurious excess-for some. Delivered into dismal poverty, young Nell Sweeney scuff marks by on her wits and little else until lot of money blesses her with a posture as nursery governess to the fabulously rich Hewitts. But she soon learns that awful secrets lurk beneath the surface with their gold-plated world. The Hewitts' eldest child, William, a previous Union Army battle plastic surgeon and the black sheep of the family, was reported to acquire died 3 years before in a notorious Confederate prison camp. But one snowy February evening, his parents learn that he's, in simple fact, still alive-and in jail for having murdered a guy while intoxicated on opium. Infuriated by his son's deception and persuaded of his guilt, August Hewitt forbids his partner from arriving to Will's aid, so she begs Nell to help exonerate him. Nell discovers that she must explore the sort of dark and treacherous underworld she thought she'd kept far behind if she is to unearth the truth before the hangman's noose tightens around William Hewitt's neck.
