The year is 1880 in the reign of Queen Victoria. Young Mary Stone has just arrived alone and friendless in London, unsure of what to do with herself after a lifetime of keeping house for her late parents in India. She has no choice but to accept a position as a house girl for Mrs. Victoria Hawking, an aloof, mysterious society widow who seems to want nothing to do with her. But when she discovers Mrs. Hawking's true business, as a secret champion to the otherwise helpless women of London, Mary is drawn into a world of new heroic purpose battling against devious blackmailers, rescuing kidnapped children, and struggling against the restrictive place their society forces on women.

About The Playwright: Phoebe Roberts is a Waltham-based writer currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing for Stage and Screen at Lesley University. Recent productions of her work include her one-act plays To Think of Nothing and Merely Players by Hold Thy Peace at Brandeis University, as well as the ten-minute play The Late Mrs. Chadwick in the Manhattan Repertory One Act Competition. Her name is well-known as a writer in New England interactive literature circles, and she can also be seen in the Boston-area theatrical acting and modeling scenes from time to time.