A family saga which reflects on the life and times of a matriarch who seems to be able to control the family long after her death. Will they ever be free of her? Set mostly in 2010, it touches on modern day mental health issues while scrolling through, posthumously, the remarkable life of love and endeavour of its guiding character. Despite the failings of her extended family members, blood lines prove thicker than water, and she is as much trapped by them as they are by her. The novel ends in March 2020 on a topical note.

When a young, penniless, political asylum seeker lands on British soil and co-founds a manufacturing company destined for the Stock Exchange, his dirty secrets are used by his enemies as blackmail to satisfy their own unlawful ends... Into these murky waters rides a London lawyer on a cycling holiday. Wholly innocent and unaware of the course of events about to unfold and engulf him, he is confronted with a series of riddles to solve which will stretch his patience and test his resolve. Running through this meshwork of power and conundrums is the world of fine arts, in the shape of a priceless piece of jewellery with a romantic provenance and an antiquity of central Europe dating back more than two thousand years, and the world of commerce with its boardroom power struggles and shifting loyalties. Mistakes are made, clues are misunderstood, hopes are raised and dashed, tears are shed and relationships are formed and broken in an adventure of intrigue as the characters move through...