Prudence Endicott is the daughter of London’s Conciliator – the voice and hope of the little people. Will she be able to pick up the torch after her mother dies? Volume 1 of 2. After many years abroad, Prudence Endicott is back in England to bury her mother. Hired as a nanny by a wealthy London family, the young woman immediately begins to spend her nights in the more popular neighbourhoods … For Miss Endicott is now the new Conciliator, she who helps the poor and the humble to solve their problems when society ignores them. A difficult task – especially as something sinister appears to be brewing underneath London …

Prudence Endicott is the daughter of London’s Conciliator – the voice and hope of the little people. Will she be able to pick up the torch after her mother dies? Volume 2 of 2. Miss Endicott’s life as a Conciliator is off to a bad start: a strange plot is being hatched in the tunnels beneath London, her headquarters have been torched, the child whose nanny she is by day has disappeared while following her at night … and to top it all, her mother, whom everyone believed dead, has reappeared! A blessing, or a curse? Can two Conciliators together defeat the mysterious master – assuming two Conciliators could ever work together?