Sofia Morozova is a leading soloist in the Covent Garden Royal Ballet company. She is unhappily married to an older man and together they have a drink problem, which impacts on her status within the dance company. Her innate discipline means that she fights through the alcoholism to preserve her career. Despite her talent, the spiral is downwards.

A car accident after an alcohol-infused dinner party leads to two fateful meetings which will alter her life dramatically.

Can Sofia escape her alcoholism? And can she cope with the irresistible pull she feels to the mysterious garage mechanic, who most definitely isn't who she appears to be?

The third book of The Westminster Series plays in and around Covent Garden and Westminster. The politicians Catherine Fitzwilliam and Amber Reynaud, whose story was told in Book One, In Private, weave in and out of the narrative.