When Hannah Fox’s younger brother Sam is ridden down in the street by Thomas Truswell — the arrogant son of Sheffield’s most powerful industrialists — she marches to the Truswell estate to demand justice. There, Lady Truswell is intrigued by the fiery young woman and offers her a position as housemaid. But Hannah’s father forbids any association with the Truswells, revealing a family feud rooted in an old silver-designs partnership gone sour. Determined to defy her father, Hannah soon discovers that the Truswells’ treachery and ambition are not only historic but dangerously present