The Winter Rose (The Tea Rose, part 2) - Jennifer Donnelly

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The Winter Rose begins in London in the summer of 1900. It has been twelve years since a dark, murderous figure stalked the alleys and courts of Whitechapel. Time has passed, places and people have changed. And yet, East London is still poor, still brutal, still a shadow city to its western twin.

Reformers, moved by the plight of the poor, work to better their conditions. Among them is an idealistic young woman named India Selwyn-Jones. Newly graduated from medical school, India joins a practice in Whitechapel and tends to its people. With the help of her influential fiancé Freddie Lytton, an up-and-coming Liberal MP she works to shut down the area's opium dens that destroy both body and soul. Her selfless activities better her patients lives and bring her immense gratification, but unfortunately, they also bring her into direct conflict with East London's ruling crime lord Sid Malone.