A breathtaking thriller featuring “political and amorous intrigues, cold-blooded murder, and financial crises” (San Francisco Chronicle), from your #1 NY Times bestselling author of A Column of Fire

In 1866, tragedy strikes the exclusive Windfield School when a youthful student drowns inside a mysterious accident. His loss of life and its aftermath initiate a spiraling group of treachery which will span three years and entwine many lives.

In the exclusive men’s clubs and brothels that focus on every dark desire of London’s upper class to the dazzling ballrooms and mahogany-paneled suites from the manipulators of the world’s wealth, one family is splintered by a shared legacy. But greed, fed by the surprising truth of the boy’s death, should be halted, or the dreams of a country will die.