The sixth volume in the Williamsburg series, this is a satisfying return to the Spragues and the Days - again from Williamsburg and New York, to London and Farthingale. The best of the series, since The Light Heart, a good yarn with pace and momentum, and a gratifying gathering up of the threads in the years leading up to World War II. Sue has gone, Jeff is her heir, the surviving male Day. And the story interest shifts back and forth from Jeff, fearful...

Having harbored an unrequited love for a man she met in childhood, Cassandra impulsively breaks an engagement to become the now-widowed man's nanny, but realizes that her chance for winning his heart is threatened by dark secrets.

Bracken Murray visits London and falls in love with an English girl during the Jubilee summer of 1897 after his wife deserts him while back his cousin Fitz rescues a music-hall singer who falls in love with him in the United States.