Dark Angel

24-year-old Mary Ann Cotton returns home to Seaham, County Durham having eloped to Cornwall with Billy Mowbray. A terrible cycle of births and deaths has haunted the pair but as Mary's circumstances worsen she finds a deadly solution.

Mary Ann discovers that James Robinson has had a change of heart over his relationship with her. Furious, she sets out to get rid of the impediments to their potential marriage - the children, which claims the life of an unintended victim.

After moving a few towns away to escape her latest misdemeanours, passions are reignited with old flame Joe, but financial struggles and a taste of middle class life soon make Joe surplus to Mary Ann's requirements. How many more innocent people will fall victim to the contents of Mary Ann's dreaded teapot?