Publisher's Synopsis
Captain Tom Strong has married a woman he does not love. Horatia, his cousin by adoption, is now a powerful entrepreneur through her inheritance of a vast family fortune, but his respect for her is eclipsed by his enduring desire for Blanche, her half-sister. The Strongs' business empire, founded in Barbados, has been built on the sugar trade, but Brunel's Britain is marching towards an imperial, industrial age and the city's traditional sugar custom is dissolving. Will the family embrace the mechanical revolution or find themselves struggling to survive?