The River Maid (The River Maid, Book 1)The first in the stunning River Maid series by Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly Court London, 1854: twenty year old Essie Chapman lives with her father in poverty stricken Limehouse, working on the river as a boatman. Her life seems set before her, never to leave this part of London and forever at her fathers beck and call. Then, one night, she must transport a mysterious man from a foreign ship to the banks of the Thames, a man who ends up renting a