Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rush to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno? When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him, but she comes up against a devious enemy... Harry and Emma's adopted daughter makes plans to marry, but Lady Virginia Fenwick drops her particular brand of poison into the wedding chalice... Then, without warning, Cedric Hardcastle, a bluff Yorkshireman who no one has come across before, takes his place on the board of Barringtons - a move that will change the lives of every member of the Clifton and Barrington families...
