New York, 1892.

The Bowery never lacks for spectacle: gaslit gambling dens, crowded dance pavilions, and saloons roaring late into the night. The Variety Theater draws packed houses—and the outrage of reformers who condemn them all as citadels of vice.

Nonetheless, Miss Daisy Dobbins is determined to let nothing interfere with her dream of becoming a vaudeville star.

At the center of the storm stands a charismatic preacher determined to cleanse the city of corruption. His sermons draw devoted followers and bitter enemies.

When a young woman is struck down outside a garment factory, the violence seems at first an isolated tragedy.

But it is not.

As the bodies mount, private inquiry agent Delia Ross is drawn into a web of ambition, hypocrisy, and violence stretching from factory floors to vaudeville halls to the heights of city politics.

She is about to discover a dangerous truth.

On the Bowery, virtue can be as deadly as vice.