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When her father dies, no one comes to save her. Eliza is still a child when illness claims the only person who ever loved her. Left penniless and alone, she's taken in by Mary Hartwell, not out of kindness, but obligation. Eliza quickly knows that she's unwanted. A burden. A problem that must be solved. Mary doesn't want another mouth to feed; she has a solution. Sold to a chimney sweep, Eliza is sent into the dark before she's learned how to be afraid. Her first crawl steals her breath, her childhood, and any illusion that someone will step in when things go wrong. When a boy is dragged from the flue and work simply continues, Eliza understands the truth. In this world, poor children are replaceable. But Eliza does not break. As soot blackens her skin and fear settles deep in her bones, something inside her hardens into quiet resolve. She watches. She learns. And she begins to wonder how a society that speaks so loudly of duty and decency can abandon its children so completely. Who profits from her suffering? Why does no one stop it? And what will it cost Eliza to survive long enough to choose a different life? In a city that feeds on the weak, can a chimney girl carved from ash and smoke ever claim a future of her own?

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