Skye is driven, sharp, and uncompromising, shaped by a harsh childhood in Dublin and a rough start in London. Raised without the safety net of a solid family, she learned quickly that the world wasn’t kind to those without power. By sixteen, she’d started making her place in London’s underbelly, first as a worker and eventually as a savvy businesswoman. Now the owner of The Moth & Lantern, Skye has turned her brothel into more than just a means of survival — it’s a stepping stone to bigger things. She values loyalty above all, especially from those closest to her, like her brother Eoin, though their relationship is complex. Skye doesn’t leave room for weakness or sentimentality; everything she does is calculated, and she’s determined to climb higher in the world, no matter the cost.
Amira St. Clair
FC: Tuppence Middleton
Mrs. Alice Johnson-Riley is an unassuming governess recently arrived from Boston. Looking to start over with a new life, she seeks employment with a respectable family, with impeccable references from New York. And it all looks perfectly ordinary on paper, does it not? A flawless referral delivered by a thirty-six-year-old woman with freckled skin and eyes a bewitching shade of hazel-green. A woman whose father named her Amira Hanım Andrews Al-Rashid, after his wife died shortly after bringing the tiny little girl into the world ahead of her time. A woman who certainly spent her time as a governess in her twenties — but whose current interests lie in providences that wax poetical. By law or by hand, ancient mysteries mixed up in recent tragedies, and the combination creates a woman with a singular agenda: find out who killed her family.