Set both in Victorian era and contemporary London, this novel in two timelines follows the story of the son of an infamous fraudster who enters the London home of a wealthy industrialist and his daughter with disastrous results. Sparks fly, three people go missing and a rising novelist's work is abruptly halted. Reputations are left in ruins and a vast fortune is lost. Fast forward 150 years to the present where the bones of a young woman are unearthed in the garden of a banker's house on the edge of Hyde Park. A forbidden love, betrayal and murder have been long buried, but it is up to those in the present to unravel the truth before its too late to escape the effects on their own lives. If you enjoyed the suspenseful and captivating story of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, you will be sure to love this historical-mystery novel