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 his 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 the City of London. This is his story as it happened and perhaps as he wished it to happen. Everything seemed normal until he entered the street. Chaos, cars and people everywhere, shouting, screaming, crying, lost in confusion. Josiah knew things had been very tense and unpredictable but was in no way prepared for what was to happen next. After the bank closed everything had changed. On his walk home the responsibilities for not only his family but a full house staff weighed heavily upon him. Josiah's glass had always been half-full to overflowing was now difficult seeing it as neither half-full nor half-empty. Before ushering the previous residents out onto the streets, all the locks had been changed. The eleven stood on the sidewalk in front of what, moments ago, was home, now looked up to the heavens praying that answers would suddenly fall from the sky. Fate can be cruel! Who amongst them had the strength, imagination and drive to hold them all together and to lead them to a new better life?
