Part of The Clifton Chronicles, book 6
First published 2016
Harry Clifton watches his world collapse when someone reads a suicide note aloud. The words devastate his wife Emma, his brother-in-law Giles Barrington, and their nemesis Lady Virginia. Giles faces an impossible choice between his political career and rescuing Karin from behind the Iron Curtain, but he cannot tell if she loves him or spies on him. Lady Virginia stares at bankruptcy until she meets Cyrus T. Grant III, a wealthy American whose horse runs at Royal Ascot. Harry's son Sebastian runs Farthings Bank while rivals Adrian Sloane and Desmond Mellor plot to destroy him and chairman Hakim Bishara. Sebastian falls for Nadira, an Indian woman whose parents have chosen her husband. Harry fights to free writer Anatoly Babakov from a Siberian prison camp. Emma asks her friend Margaret Thatcher to speak with the Russian President about Babakov's case. Then something happens that changes everything for all of them.
Genres: historical-fiction, 20th-century, suspense, contemporary, 21st-century, political-thriller
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Iron Curtain, Royal Ascot, Siberia
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
404 pages · Hardcover · St. Martin's Press