Deep Gold — Christopher Nicole

When, on 16 November 1918, the Maddox Shipping Company liner Northern Wind is torn apart by a massive explosion and sinks in fifteen minutes, she takes with her to the bottom of the sea not only two thousand souls but the world's greatest private treasure, being secretly transported from England to the United States. Unfortunately for the men who carried out the sabotage, owing to a last minute alteration of course, the ship did not sink in the calculated position, from which her cargo could be recovered. Instead she has simply disappeared, in a position known only to one of the thirteen survivors, newly wed Brande Maddox. Temporarily traumatized by the catastrophic end to all her dreams, Brande determines to devote her life to avenging the dead and recovering the treasure, soon aware that there are others who know that she is the key to location of the wreck, and who will stop at nothing to get it.

But Deep Gold is not only a story of men and the sea. It is the Roaring Twenties Prohibition and the Mafia, of hatred and betrayal, of high finance and the unending “boom” that culminated in the Great Crash of 1929, and of two scintillating love affairs, in an adventure dominated by the courage and determination of one beautiful young woman who fights her way from poverty to enormous wealth and power, risking catastrophe and death to achieve her