Troubled times and strife bring unknown opportunities to unlikely people, including opportunities that could change the world. This novel is both about things that did happen and things that might have happened. It will take you back in time to the early 1870s in the prosperous English city of London. Josiah Raines is fashioned after the author's great-grandfather, Frederick Henry Daniels. He was a merchant banker in the City of London and a wealthy man. He was an Alderman and a Freeman of...