A Reluctant ex-spy with deomons of her own, Elinor finds herself facing down one of the most dangerous organized crime gangs in London, ultimately exposing corruption from Scotland Yard to the highest levels of government. 
The private, quiet "Miss White" as Elinor is known, lives in a village in rural Kent, England, and to her fellow villagers is comething of an enigma - well she might be, as Elinor occupies a "grace and favor" property, a rare privilege offered to faithful servants of the Crown for services to the nation.  But the residents of Shacklehurst have no way of knowing how dangerous Elinor's war work was, or that thier mysterious neighbor is haunted by her past.