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A Fortune of Sand
by Ruta Sepetys
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Detroit, 1927. Marjorie Lennox is the artistic youngest daughter of a newly wealthy motor-industry dynasty, but her controlling father and self-absorbed siblings regard her ambitions as another embarrassment. She secretly applies to an exclusive arts programme, hoping that the opportunity will let her define a life beyond the expectations imposed by her family.
The programme occupies an impressive building and is financed by a magnetic, elusive benefactor, yet its rules soon feel more coercive than protective. Locked doors, unexplained noises and rumours of missing women draw Marjorie into a mystery that connects private power, public glamour and the institutions that can make inconvenient people disappear in Prohibition-era Detroit.
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