Ellie, just married to Quinn Peters, is set to live happily ever after She has not bargained, however, for the intervention of her flamboyant Aunt Columba of the famous theatrical Flowerdew family. A casual remark of Columba's about the similarity that Quinn bears to Ellie's mother's first husband, sixties pop star the Mighty Rich of the Coinmakers, sets in train a frantic hunt into the past. Ellie has been told that her half-brother Marcus, whose photograph sits by her mother's bed, had died as a child. Now she is faced with the possibility that this might not be true and that she has married her missing half-brother...