Text and photographs provide brief biographies of builders of the city and observations of visitors and natives create a picture of London in the nineteenth century.
"When Noel Bostock--aged ten, no family--is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment, he lands in a suburb northwest of the city with Vera Sedge--a thirty-six-year-old widow drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money, she's unscrupulous about how she gets it"--Jacket flap.
When Mel Foster accidentally revives a giantess from inside a block of ice, he thinks his goose is cooked. But Eve is no Monster. She doesn't want to eat Mel-she wants to protect him. And he's going to need all the help he can get. Queen Victoria's butler is hatching a plan that could Destroy the British Empire ... and only Mel has the power to stop him.
Twelve-year-old Emily Snow, who sells watercress on the streets of London to support herself and younger brother, takes the fate of humanity into her hands when she unknowingly involves herself in a war between two factions of piskies--small, sarcastic fey creatures fighting for control over England--by rescuing one.
An incredibly handsome young man in Victorian England retains his youthful appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.
In London in 1815, sixteen-year-old Lady Emily Southwell, who aspires to be an artist, enlists the aid of her three best friends from the Barnsley School for Young Ladies, in helping her out of an unwanted betrothal to a man she suspects of evil intentions, even as she is drawn to a mysterious stranger.
Barnaby Grimes, a punctual lad who runs errands around the city, seeks out mysteries to solve, is attacked one night by a huge dog, and gets caught up in a world of corrupt doctors, strange potions, and expensive furs.
