Odile Jaquemart

She landed at Dover with a valise and her father's samples, went up into the lamp-lit town, and vanished. Her family is offering a reward.

Odile Jaquemart is the daughter of a lace dealer from across the Narrow Sea, and she knows the trade as well as her father: she was sent over to see the family's lace through the Dover customs and on to its buyers.

She came down the packet stair one wet evening, gave her bag to a porter and walked up into the town. She has not been seen since. The customs have her samples, the inn has her unpaid room, and her family has sent a letter, a likeness and the promise of a reward.

Whether she ran, was taken or simply chose another life is the question a company will be paid to answer, and Dover has more than one place where a young woman can be made to disappear.

In person

Twenty-one, slender and serious, with an oval face, large dark eyes and chestnut hair; a grey travelling cloak with a lace collar over dark blue, or a burgundy bodice with lace cuffs.