The Prostitute's Price — Alan M. Clark

A novel that beats back our assumptions about the time of Jack the Ripper. Not the grim story of an unfortunate drunken prostitute killed before her time, but one of a young woman alive with all the emotional complexity of women today. Running from a man wanting her to pay for her crimes against his brother, Mary Jane Kelly must recover a valuable hidden necklace and sell it to gain the funds to leave London and start over elsewhere. Driven by powerful, if at times conflicting emotion, she runs the dystopian labyrinth of the East End, and tries to sneak past the deadly menace that bars her exit.

Although it is a standalone story, THE PROSTITUTE'S PRICE is also a companion novel to THE ASSASSIN'S COIN, by John Linwood Grant. To gain a broader experience of each novel, read both.