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 my great-grandfather, Fredrick Henry Daniels. He was a merchant banker in the City of London and a wealthy man, He was an Alderman and a Freeman of the city of London. This is his story as it happened and perhaps as he wished it to happen.
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