1810 Nottingham.

Ben Connolly was eleven years old when he killed twelve children. Each death was a mercy — sparing them from the man who had abused them all. Forty years later, he runs the city's underworld from a gentleman's club, orchestrating a shadow network that rescues children from workhouses, streets, and the homes of powerful men who believe themselves untouchable.

But Ben is no hero. He is a man shaped by violence, surviving through manipulation, and holding together a found family as damaged as himself. His wife is brilliant and ruthless. His enforcer carries scars from the same hell that made Ben. And the executioner's assistant saves the condemned from the gallows, one faked death at a time.

When a woman from Ben's past arrives in Nottingham — determined to expose the devil and destroy everything he's built — the family must face the cost of their secrets, their methods, and the legacy they'll leave behind. 

THE LION'S CHAMBER explores cycles of abuse, found family, and moral complexity in an era where survival required becoming the thing you feared.

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"Everyone has a story, no one is innocent, no one gets out unscathed."

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The series draws on extensive research into Nottingham's archives, the Bloody Code, period medical texts, and the social structures of early industrial England.