The Stevenson Family #3 of 4: ''The heirs to wealth, ambition and lust in the continuing saga of the Stevenson family.''--Cvr

This book (#3 in the series) focuses as much on the second generation as the first. The author begins to explore questions of merit, privilege, capitalism and social equality in the early part of Queen Victoria's reign. --goodreads

After a dizzying rise filled with ambition and passion, the Stevensons are now one of the richest families in the world. John, recalling his lowly past, wants his children to obey to the letter and never put a foot wrong. But his four eldest children, Young John, Winifred, Caspar, and Abigail, have ideas of their own. As they test the temptations of the adult world, the lure of profit and pleasure brings the risk of disaster and disgrace, and the tensions threaten to pull the family apart...