In the glittering yet fractured world of the Roaring Twenties, Margot Andrews is expected to become the perfect society wife—polished, obedient, and strategically married. But beneath the surface, she is a young woman haunted by family scandal, her father’s tragic death, and a lifetime spent measuring her worth through the approval of others. When the pressures of London’s elite social world close in around her marriage, Margot escapes to a very different America: booming Detroit, where automotive fortunes rise overnight, rumrunners slip through the Great Lakes, and reinvention feels possible for anyone bold enough to seize it.

Amid yacht races on the Detroit River, lavish estates in Grosse Pointe, and the restless energy of a city remaking the modern world, Margot struggles to build a life on her own terms. But independence comes at a cost. Torn between old-money expectations and the seductive freedom of a changing era, she must decide whether she is willing to lose everything—status, security, even love—to discover who she truly is.