It has been three years since Aaron Harrington's wife left him. Unable to move on, battling alcoholism, and facing problems at work, he struggles to maintain the will to live. For Jack Graeme, it has been three years since he met the married Anne Harrington. Now that she is his wife, he is forced to come to terms with the effect his actions - and Anne's - have had on her ex-husband.

Lilith Farrar's job is not easy. She rubs shoulders with socialites, diplomats, the President of the Western Union, even choice members of the British Peerage, all in the name of keeping secrets. Hired by her husband to keep his personal life private, she is exceptionally good at managing his affairs. Good, that is, until something goes terribly wrong at a weekend retreat and threatens to blow their cover wide open.