Instead, she overhears Burton and Bowler Sheehan, a harsh criminal, discussing Paddy's murder by Sheehan. In an attempt to receive compensation for her father's death, Fiona goes to William Burton's office. Fiona and her little brother Seamie are taken in by their family friend, Roddy O'Meara, who lived with them in the previous home.
Struck with grief at his mother's death, Fiona's younger brother Charlie runs away and is found dead in the Thames. She is later murdered by Jack the Ripper when she finds him murdering her neighbor. Her mother is forced to move her children from their childhood home without her husband's wages to support them. Soon after, her father is killed by slipping on grease and falling from a building window. Fiona and her childhood sweetheart, Joe Bristow, remain hopeful that they will be able start their own grocery shop with the money that they save until Joe is tricked into marrying Fiona's rival, Millie Peterson.
Paddy works as a docker in Whitechapel and is later called upon to lead the dockers to support labour unions. In London in 1888, 17-year-old Fiona Finnegan, daughter of Irish immigrants Paddy and Kate, works under William Burton, owner and founder of Burton Tea.
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