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The Truth Did Not Burn: The Ashcroft Case I
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Series: The Ashcroft Case, Book 1
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 500
Weight: 1.46
Height: 1.01 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A boy from the smoke. A dead father. A factory that buried the truth.
Victorian London is a city built on coal, hunger, silence, and machines. For Thomas Ashcroft, the factory is not only a place of work. It is the place that took his father, crushed his family, and taught him that justice is rarely given to those who need it most.
When a hidden warning proves that Samuel Ashcroft's death was no accident, Thomas is pulled into a dangerous web of factory records, missing documents, political influence, class power, and men willing to burn anything that threatens their control.
With the help of a sharp-tongued lawyer, a conflicted heiress, a wounded mother, and workers who have spent years being ignored, Thomas begins to uncover the truth behind Harrington & Vane, one of London's most powerful industrial companies.
But truth has a cost.
And some men would rather see a city burn than let the poor speak.
The Truth Did Not Burn is the first book in The Ashcroft Case, a gripping historical suspense novel set in industrial Victorian London, where class struggle, family secrets, corruption, and justice collide in a world of smoke, fire, and buried evidence.
Perfect for readers who enjoy historical fiction, Victorian mysteries, industrial-era drama, legal suspense, dark family secrets, and emotionally charged stories of ordinary people fighting powerful enemies.
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