Beryl Stapleton felt joy, when her husband Jack was sucked into the
Grimpen Mire. Free of his oppressive evil, she opened a fashionable
dress shop in London. Known as The Widow of Dartmoor, her enterprise is
a success . . . until she is caught, at 2am dragging the body of a
murdered man into an alleyway. Who better to defend her than The
Bastard, the nephew of Sherlock Holmes? A barrister, Jeremy Holmes is
the illegitimate son of Sherlock's oldest brother. Revered by the
criminals of London, Jeremy lives to peel the masks off witnesses and
find the truth. But his gifts are not the product of reason. Rather, his
art. His pictures reveal the passions of those he draws. He can feel
their hearts.