Robert Godwin's tumultuous ride on the Wheel of Fortune begins with his passion for his sensual cousin Ginevra as they waltz to ' The Blue Danube' beneath the chandeliers at Oxmoon his beloved family home in Wales. As Robert discovers his rational well-ordered mind will be forever altered by his obsession for Ginevra & his destiny will be forever linked to Oxmoon by the skeletons which lurk in the family closet... For fifty years from the sinister summer afternoon of 1913 to the 1960s the Godwin family are sucked into a maelstrom of passion disorder madness & murder. Fortunes rise & fall in this sweeping compulsive tale until the Wheel of Fortune finally comes full circle.