WARNING: THIS BOOK IS NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDFREN AND YOUNG ADULTS AS IT CONTAINS ADULT MATERIAL AND DEALS WITH ADULT THEMES
When a new mother tragically dies within hours of giving birth, her grief-stricken widower places his daughter, Margaret, up for adoption with his childless employers, Lord and Lady Trevelyan and she grows up little realising that her real father is a mere servant on Lord Trevelyan's estate
When Lord and Lady Trevelyan are declared missing, presumed dead as a result of the tragedy of RMS Titanic Margaret is thrown on the mercy of relatives she had never met or heard of owing to a long standing estrangement between Lady Trevelyan and her younger sister, Lady Lynchcliffe.
Margaret falls passionately in love with Lewis Franklin, the Lynchcliffe family's lowly chauffeur. As a result of a spiteful grudge held by a kitchen maid secrets emerge and lead to murder. Now aware of her true origins in life, Margaret must make sense of things and work out whether or not she and Franklin can ever hope to have a future together.