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Constance and Maude are sisters in early Victorian London, brought even closer when their parents die and they have to move in with their grandfather. He’s a successful apothecary owner and the two grow up helping him behind the counter. Though Maude has come to find contentment in the stability of their lives, Constance yearns for adventure. Not just a whirlwind romance or to find a respectable position. She wants to see the world, so she signs up as a cabin boy (in disguise) on the Makepeace, a ship sent to rescue the missing Franklin Expedition.

Years later, when it is confirmed that Constance did not survive, Maude is secretly given her sister’s journal by a sympathetic representative within the Admiralty. Between this man’s stories about one Edison Stowe and entries in Constance’s secret diary, Maude knows something untoward happened on their voyage. She determines to discover the truth and expose Stowe.