At a lush villa on the sun-soaked island of Madeira,
Martin Radford is given a second chance. His life ruined
by scandal, Martin holds in his hands the leather-bound
journal of another ruined man, former British cabinet
minister Edwin Strafford. What’s more, Martin is being
offered a job—to return to England and investigate the
rise and fall of Strafford, an ambitious young politician
whose downfall, in 1910, is as mysterious as the strange
deaths that still haunt his family.
Martin is intrigued by Strafford’s story, by the man’s
overwhelming love for a beautiful suffragette, by her
inexplicable rejection of him and their love affair’s
political repercussions. But as he retraces Strafford’s
ruination, Martin realizes that Strafford did not fall by
chance; he was pushed. Suddenly Martin, who has not cared
for many people in his life, cares desperately—about a
man’s mysterious death and a family’s terrible secret,
about a love beyond reckoning and betrayal beyond
imagining. Most of all Martin cares because the story he
is uncovering is not yet over—and among the men and women
still caught in its web, Martin himself may be the most
vulnerable of all….
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