Tarquin and Adimu are married, and Tristan has survived his drug overdose, but can his relationship with Grace survive the ordeal, when a new love enters the arena of his thoughts? Megan now knows that Sharon is not dead, as she had feared and assumed, but has no means of contacting her, and must let fate decide her future. Meanwhile Abigail and Ross must decide their own future together, but can they have such a future and remain working at the Manor House? Someone is looking for Molly, whom she has not seen since her teens, and it is someone who has come with a particular agenda. Olivia suspects that Horatio, her brother, has met someone who is of more significance than he is admitting to, and as she attempts to widen her social network, she meets someone who has unexpected connections with the Manor House, whilst Lady Elin meets someone by the lake, who awakens in her unwanted and unwelcome feelings. A new tenant comes to live at Beal Street, with consequences which nobody could have foreseen, although perhaps they could, and a meeting takes place, where Victoria must face the woman that she hates, for the sake of her dead brothers’ son, with no sense as to how she will react upon meeting her. Tara is on tour with the band, the end comes into sight, which turns out is not the end, after all. In the final pages of our book, someone appears early one morning at the steps of the Manor House, which forces Michael to at last face the consequences of his decisions, and where, in all of the uncertainty, is Rebecca? Nobody knows, except Percival, because Percival has been warned.