When Harry Clifton visits his publisher in New York, he learns that he has been elected as the new president of English PEN, and immediately launches a campaign for the release of a fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who's imprisoned in Siberia. Babakov's crime? Writing an incisive book about what it was like to work for Stalin. But Harry's campaign puts his own life in danger... Emma Clifton is facing the repercussions of the IRA attack on the BUCKINGHAM. Some board members feel she should resign, and Lady Virginia Fenwick will stop at nothing to cause Emma's downfall... Meanwhile, Sebastian Clifton is quickly making a name for himself at Farthing's Bank in London, and has proposed to a beautiful young American. But the despicable Adrian Sloane will do anything to remove his rival...