The River Maid

London 1854: twenty-year-old Essie Chapman lives with her father in poverty stricken Limehouse working on the river as a boatman. Then one night she must transport a mysterious man from a foreign ship to the banks of the Thames a man who ends up renting a room in Essie’s house identifying himself only as ‘Raven’. When curiosity gets the better of her Essie follows him and finds herself on a ship bound for the penal colonies in Australia.