A Debt in the Dark

By Faye Godwin

London, 1851. Evelyn Brown is twelve years old when she discovers that her grieving, broken father has borrowed money from Larry Gossamer - a name spoken quietly in Whitechapel, and never without a glance at the door. With her sisters depending on her and the debt compounding by the week, Evelyn does what no one expects: she goes to Gossamer herself and makes a deal.

What follows is a decade of hard-won survival. Of carrying parcels through dark streets and keeping secrets from the people she loves. Of a brooch lost and a sister taken and a receipt in a drawer that finally, one April afternoon, says the account is closed.

But some debts are not written in ledgers. And some of the most important things in a life cannot be negotiated for - only chosen, freely, when the time is finally right.

Woven through Evelyn's story is the quiet, watchful presence of Marcus Vane - a man she meets in the margins of Gossamer's world, who redirects her away from danger without explanation and disappears before she can ask why. When he returns years later with the truth and something she thought was lost forever, Evelyn must decide what to do with a trust she never expected to feel and a choice that, for once, belongs entirely to her.

A Debt in the Dark is a story about survival, about the slow work of becoming free, and about a love that had to wait for the darkness to lift before it could come into the light.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GYPBG2R4
• ISBN13: 9798258864154
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"