With her late father’s fortune under her uncle’s care until her twenty-fifth birthday in the year 1887, Edyth Foster does not feel pressured to marry or to bow to society’s demands. She freely indulges in eccentric hobbies like fencing and riding her velocipede in her cycling costume about the city for all to see. Finding a loophole in the will, though, her uncle whisks Edyth off to the women’s lunatic asylum just weeks before her birthday. Do any of Edyth’s friends care that she disappeared?

At the asylum she meets another inmate, who upon discovering Edyth’s plight, confesses that she is Nellie Bly, an undercover journalist for The World. Will either woman find a way to leave the terrifying island and reclaim her true self?

he McAllister family is living on the edge of poverty in London, in 1909. Having lost their father tragically, their mother must scrape by and try to provide for her three younger children, while the oldest daughter Laura works on a large estate more than an hour away. When Edna McAllister falls gravely ill and is hospitalized, fourteen-year-old twins Katie and Garth and seven year-old Grace are forced into a children's home before Laura learns about the unfortunate turn of events in London. With hundreds of British children sailing to Canada, designated as orphans whether true or not, Laura knows the stakes are high, but she determines to resuce her siblings no matter what the cost.

Andrew Fraser, a wealthy young British lawyer and heir to the estate where Laura is in service, discovers that this common practice of emigrating penniless children might not be all that it seems. Together Laura and Andrew form an unlikely partnership. Will they arrive in time? Will their friendship blossom into something more?

Inspired by true events, this moving novel follows Laura as she seeks to reunite her family who, in their darkest hours, must cling to the words from Isaiah: “Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God”.