Marcia Butler's debut novel

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By someone who kills in the unmistakable style of an Imperial assassin

A Debt Discharged Marvel Marcia Butler's debut novelThomas Maple lives on Crystal Palace Road with his niece Verity. He works for a firm of bank note engravers. However, the dollar bills he shows Wentworth Gold are forgeries perfect except for the missing Treasury sign. When Verity meets her new employer she develops serious misgivings, and arriving back home she can hear a menacing voice. What power do these men hold over her uncle? Who is the mysterious he? She hesitates, then follows them.