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1887, Il Cairo. Quando un'ex amante gelosa distrugge la felicità di Penrod Ballantyne e della sua fidanzata Amber, il loro sogno di costruire una famiglia svanisce. Decisa a trovare una nuova ragione per vivere, Amber parte per il Tigrè con la gemella Saffron e il marito di lei, Ryder Courtney, che ha individuato nelle montagne della zona una ricca vena d'argento.

In their remarkable debut political thriller, Tom Watson, former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, and Imogen Robertson open the doors to The House, a place of ambition, hope, friendship...and betrayal. Once allies, Labour MP Owen McKenna and Conservative Minister Philip Bickford now face each other across the House of Commons as bitter enemies. Then the reappearance of a figure from their past forces them to confront the choices that led to the tragic downfall of their former housemate, Jay.

London, 1785: When the body of a former West Indies planter is found staked out by St Paul's Cathedral, suspicion falls at once on a runaway slave. But the answer is not that simple. The planter's death brings tragedy for Francis Glass, a freed slave working as a bookseller, and a painful reminder of the past for William Geddings, senior footman in the household of unconventional widow Harriet Westerman. Harriet is reluctant to confront the powerful world of the slave trade but she and her friend, anatomist Gabriel Crowther, must face its shameful truths....