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  • The Tea Rose is an enjoyable historical fiction that leans a little more towards fiction than historical. The story starts out in 19th century London during the time of Jack-the-Ripper where we meet two teenagers, Fiona and Joe, from the Whitechapel neighborhood as they dream of their future togeth ... Continue

    The Tea Rose is an enjoyable historical fiction that leans a little more towards fiction than historical. The story starts out in 19th century London during the time of Jack-the-Ripper where we meet two teenagers, Fiona and Joe, from the Whitechapel neighborhood as they dream of their future together. However they soon find their dreams ripped apart and a string of ridiculously fortunate events brings Fiona to New York. The story then follows both Joe and Fiona as they build their individual empires on separate continents. The story concludes 10 years later, back in London where Fiona and Joe try to rekindle their long-ago love while Fiona prepares to avenge her father’s death (10 years ago).

    

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East London, 1888 - a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a costermonger's son. With nothing but their faith in each other to spur them on, Fiona and Joe struggle, save, and sacrifice to achieve their dreams.But Fiona's life is shattered when the actions of a dark and brutal man take from her nearly everything-and everyone-she holds dear. Fearing her own death, she is forced to flee London for New York. There, her indomitable spirit propels her rise from a modest West Side shop-front to the top of Manhattan's tea trade. But Fiona's old ghosts do not rest quietly, and to silence them, she must venture back to the London of her childhood, where a deadly confrontation with her past becomes the key to her future.

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