Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.
Keywords: 19th-century , adventurer , africa , betrayal , blackmail , british-empire , conspiracy , corruption , dark , dark-secret , georgian-or-regency-era , greed , gritty , gunpowder , incest-overtones , investigation , land-deed , london-england , murder , period-drama , period-piece , revenge , shipping-company , slave-ship , slow-burn , violence , witchcraft