A murder and a case of mistaken identity brings the police to Hannah Elias' glitzy, five-story, twenty-room mansion on Central Park West. This is the beginning of an odyssey that moves back and forth in time and reveals the dangerous secrets of a mysterious woman, the fortune she built, and her precipitous fall. In this novel by the author of Sally Hemings, Elias becomes the wealthiest Black woman in Gilded Age New York, but her intoxicating glamor brings harm to everyone around her.