Best-selling author Harry Clifton is determined to release a fellow writer who is incarcerated in Siberia, despite the fact that doing so puts his own life and his career in peril. In the meantime, the Buckingham bombing by the IRA is having an impact on his wife Emma, chairman of Barrington Shipping. She should resign, according to several board members. Others will do everything it takes to ensure the Clifton family's demise. Sebastian, the son of Harry and Emma, is swiftly establishing himself at Farthing's Bank in London. He recently proposed to Samantha, a stunning young American. However, the vile Adrian Sloane is solely concerned with Sebastian's demise.