HIS DREAM CRATED A FAMILY EMPIRE.
HIS PASSION NEARLY DESTROYED IT.
Thomas Kingston was a ruthless visionary, a bold, sensual man driven by a power dream - to found a magnificent establishment where all the fabulous goods of the world were sold under one roof...

SEPTEMBER 1, 1869

Thomas opened an elegant shop in London. That same evening he met beautiful May Ramsay, whom he would love, marry...and betray. For Thomas was wed only to his own raging ambition. His spectacular rise from genteel poverty to supremem wealth spanned six tumultuous decades of strikes, fires, war, family scandal and heartbreak. He became a patriarch, a baronet, a giant whose greed crushed honorable men, whose lust abused the women who loved him. He fought, survived, and triumphed to see his glorious dream become a glittering reality - a towering place of business so unique, so famous, so wildly successful that the elite of the world called it simply...

The Store