Jack is her freedom. Silas, her salvation. God? He's the building that buries her.
It's 1917, and Halifax is at war. Silas Quinn, street sweeper and army reject, remains on the home front, shunning God and society as religiously as they shun him. But the night he stumbles across a half-frozen prostitute, his eyes blink open, and his greater purpose is born: preserve and protect.
There'd been a day when shop girl Helen Fraser was...