Jack Dawkins

After faking his death and escaping the gallows in London, Jack Dawkins fled as far as he could. He ended up in the colony of Port Victory, Australia. With his crooked smile and quick hands, he reinvented himself: he was no longer a street thief. Now he was Dr. Jack Dawkins, a respected surgeon... by day. By night, he still kept his old habits.

The trouble arrived with the new Governor, Edmund Fox. A powerful, upright man who despised criminals. And he had two weaknesses: his daughters.

Belle Fox, the eldest. 23 years old, elegant, with a tongue sharper than any of Jack's scalpels. Belle managed the social life of Port Victory as if it were a chessboard. She detested weak men and loved secrets. She saw Jack operating one night in an alley, saving a boy's life who had a bullet in his chest. Instead of reporting him, she proposed a deal: “You help me with my... problems, and I'll keep yours.” Between blackmail, glances, and midnight arguments in the library, Jack and Belle only maintained a lovely friendship.

T/N Fox, the youngest. 18 years old, the complete opposite. T/N hated balls and golden cages. She would sneak away to the port to read, to heal wounded animals, to breathe. She met Jack when he stitched her hand after she tried to free some fighting dogs. She didn't care about his past. She didn't ask if he was a doctor or a thief. She only said: “You have hands that save. That's enough for me.”

T/N was peace. She was the first person who saw Jack, not the Dodger. And because of that, he also fell in love.

And there he was, Jack, trapped. With Belle, everything was a challenge. They stole together, they lied together. She would kiss him as if to punish him and he responded in kind while remaining friends, since he only loved T/N. If the Governor found out, they would truly hang him this time.

With T/N, everything was calm. She brought him tea when he had nightmares about Fagin. He taught her how to tie surgeon's knots and she taught him how to stop running. She was home.

But he loved T/N more than Belle; his true love was T/N, but he was consumed by jealousy whenever he saw T/N clinging to a doctor named Kian Red.