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The Winter Rose

Jennifer Donnelly

The Tea Rose #2

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A dangerous East End gangster and a idealistic doctor in Victorian London — worlds apart, irresistibly drawn together.

Content Warnings
violence/gore

Description

Donnelly returns to her beloved Tea Rose saga, exploring the dangerous, desperate early relationship of gangster Sid Malone and doctor India Selwyn-Jones.

The Tea Rose series

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