A private banking dynasty has hidden a terrible secret since a
family member escaped the Titanic. Edie Quentance is the ugly
duckling in a family of charming conformists. For generations,
Quentance Bank has managed the wealth of its rich and aristocratic
clients, and when Edie is pushed into joining the family bank, she
finds the work very dull indeed. She passes the time trying to
uncover the truth about her greatgrandfather Kit, whose love of the
sea she has inherited. Kit Quentance was rumoured to have carried a
fortune into the Titanic lifeboat with him – money that has never
been found. Edies excavations in the family archive unearth
some shocking and far more recent secrets. She realises that
Quentance Bank is not the paragon of old fashioned probity it
pretends to be. As she tries to right her familys
wrong-doings, Edie`s position becomes increasingly dangerous. Her
twin brother, her parents, her uncle – she no longer knows whom she
can trust.
