Plot

December 1st 1881. 16 year old Lucy meets her friends in the gritty iron mill town of workington. Failing to return home that night. Her aunt and grandma fear she has left home, until a chilling discovery, 1st March 1882 changes everything

December 1st 1881. Lucy Sands Ventures out to meet with her 3 friends - She fails to return home that evening!

First day of Spring 1882. Three months to the day after her disappearance, sparking the most heinous and shocking of Victorian murders to date (prior to the Whitechapel murders of 1888) her body is found beneath a pile of road cobbles by the local road mettler on the busy Northside of town, an unassuming Quaker by the name of Robert Moncrieff.

A murder hunt follows as the town quickly falls into utter shock and revulsion of the discovery of one off the worst female murders that Victorian society has witnessed throughout all of Queen Victorias reign.

The local press quickly blow the story to every corner of the British Empire, and the town is descended upon by thousands of onlookers and morbid tourists, all desperate to get a glimpse of the murder spot and hear tales of the girl found beneath the stones.

The police continue their inquiries and quickly arrest a young man from the town, the court case rages on for weeks and thousands of people try to attend the hearings, erstwhile the opportunists and entrepreneurs start to cash in on the high profile trial and Lucys murder.

During the extensive police interviews with over 100 witnesses, a twist in the tale ensues and a government body is dispatched to deal with silencing a certain key witness. Disturbed in his duties by an unassuming character, the witnesses fortunes change that day for the better.

justice is finally served, but not in the way we can imagine, as we follow the lives of the three surviving young women and how the death of their friend lead to catastrophic changes in all of their lives, some for the better, some not so.

This sleepy steel and coal mining industrial town would never be the same again!