Stella Myles is impoverished through a family crisis and is forced to make ends meet by selling herself as a dance partner in a Piccadilly ballroom. Here she meets the enigmatic Montgomery, who orchestrates a job for her as governess with the wealthy Ainsworth family in Sussex.
But at Harp’s End, nothing is as straightforward as it first seems. Stella encounters a family with more secrets than most, and struggles to fit in above or below stairs – although nothing proves so challenging as restraining her emotions for the mysterious Douglas Ainsworth.
When he announces that they are all to voyage aboard a cruise ship bound for Morocco, tensions reach impossible new heights. Stella is caught up in a family at war and in a world on the edge of another. She finds herself with an incendiary document that’s been smuggled out of Berlin, which she must get to London at all costs.
