In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, Britain had risen to become the most formidable empire humanity had ever witnessed. Beneath this triumph lay a strict economic stratification that measured a person"s worth solely by their rank and riches. Unsurprisingly, the arrangement privileged the upper nobility while sealing off any chance for laborers to climb upward. for all who watched and feared.
William James Moriarty, the second son of the Moriarty family, enjoyed a typical aristocratic life yet also served as an adviser to ordinary citizens, offering assistance and resolving their dilemmas. Yet beneath his polished exterior burned a yearning to dismantle the prevailing order that controlled British society and its beneficiaries.
Together with his brothers Albert and Louis, William was prepared to do whatever it took to transform the sordid world he inhabited—even if that required shedding blood.
