The Lost Passenger by Frances Quinn

From the much-loved author of The Smallest Man and That Bonesetter Woman, a novel about finding happiness through an extraordinary circumstance...

When quiet, shy Elinor ‘Mouse’ Haywood receives a proposal of marriage from the very eligible Frederick, she thinks it’s a love match. But little does she know that she has actually been the subject of a business translation between her aristocratic in-laws, who need money, and her father, a wealthy, self-made man who's insecure about his roots and beside himself at the idea of her becoming 'a lady.' Unhappily married, but the mother of a son she adores, she decides she’s made her bed and is going to lie in it.

But when, she finds herself aboard the Titanic, with her husband, son and maid Molly, bound for America, she is presented with an opportunity she cannot pass up. As the boat sinks and Frederick and Molly are nowhere to be found, Elinor decides to claim Molly’s identity as her own and to escape the binds of her existence…