In a world captivated by the temptation of fortune telling, twelve-year-old orphan Maud Mulligan finds herself caught up in a web where strangers are making plans for a future they believe she can foretell.
London 1913 and twelve-year-old Maud Mulligan finds herself suddenly orphaned. But Maud still plans to sail out of her docklands slum just as soon as she's saved enough pennies for the ticket - even if it means living in a rat-infested cupboard in the meantime.But this a time of Seers, when the wealthy use fortune tellers to help them hold onto their wealth and power, and when a foretelling is made about a girl like Maud, she finds strangers making plan for her.