A love story with a difference. We are all somebody son's or daughters, but what influenced us to be who we are, nature or nurture. William, a wealthy young man, distracted from his grief by a relative who trained him in his trade, that of butchery until he was of an age to control his inherited wealth and his life. However, as a young man, desperate for love, he fell head over heels with a young widow in an art gallery until she proved false. On the rebound, his next mistake is marriage, which turns out to be an unmitigated disaster, his wife is nothing more than a lady of the night. Is this when he earned the infamous name of Jack the Ripper? Did he stop his ghastly trade after eight months when the police said he did or did he continue, and what about his son? The house he lived in masquerades as an ordinary townhouse on Albury Street but holds many secrets.