Angelina Becory walks Birmingham’s darkest streets during Victorian Britain’s Industrial Revolution. She brings life into the world and eases the dying out of it with her Irish Romani healing gift – but even a midwife and handywoman’s shoulders can only carry so many secrets. A brutal backstreet birth leaves a mother and child dead, and a boy hollowed by grief, igniting a trail of terrible curses that Angelina can’t shake off. Through a web of bad iron, dirty money, and fatal “accidents”, she guards dark confessions of dangerous men that could destroy her if she ever dares to speak. Angelina navigates the fetid streets and courts, the rise of the ‘Cheapside Sloggers’ (who evolve into the Peaky Blinders and the Birmingham Boys) through sectarian tensions, while industrial filth poisons the city’s very blood. Using her dry humour, she walks the fine line between all religious and political leanings, becoming the unseen pivot to those who need her. Set in the smoke-blackened courts and gaslit alleys familiar to readers of the Seller & Son series, this novella reveals the hidden history behind A Legacy Forged. Angelina’s story represents the untold tales of the women who neatly held together the seams of Britain’s Victorian working classes. The Irish Romani midwife whose hands catch the first breaths of the next generation of Sellers and Cahills, whose quiet courage shapes their fate long before they step into the light.