Tatiana Caldwell's childhood in London is idyllic and filled with the love of doting parents. But when they die in quick succession she's left heartbroken and destitute. In 1864 at seventeen she emigrates to Australia determined to build a new financially secure life for herself. After an apprenticeship as an undertaker's assistant with Crowe Funeral Services Tatty marries owner Titus Crowe. Titus himself soon dies and Tatty inherits the business becoming Sydney's only female undertaker. But then rival funeral director Elias Nuttall intent on acquiring Crowe Funeral Services publicly accuses Tatty of deliberately poisoning Titus. She must find a way to stop him before he ruins her and embarks on exposing Nuttall's own gruesome secrets: a mission that takes her from the cemetery at midnight to house-breaking to Sydney's criminal court to the lunatic asylum...
