Giles Barrington must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him, or is she a spy? Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy, and can see no way out of her financial problems, until she is introduced to the hapless Cyrus T. Grant III from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. But is he the one to save her? Meanwhile, Sebastian Clifton is now the Chief Executive of Farthings Bank and a workaholic, whose personal life is thrown into disarray when he falls for Priya, a beautiful Indian girl. Sebastian's rivals, Adrian Sloane and Desmond Mellor, are still plotting to bring him and his chairman Hakim Bishara down. And Harry Clifton himself remains determined to get Anatoly Babakov released from a gulag in Siberia, following the international success of his acclaimed book. But he never could have anticipated the events that follow. What does fate have in store for these characters? Only time will tell. . .