There is a new king on the throne, the Edwardian era is done and in the future looms the threat of war in the first global conflict. On board the Gnomon travelling the canals of Staffordshire other troubles will soon change the lives of Maitland Kempson, his sisters, and their life-long friend Constance forever, and that isn't only through competition with the railways. Local bad boy Carl O'Leary, Constance's unlikely husband,...