Best Kept Secret continues the Clifton and Barrington family saga from 1945 into the late 1950s.
The story opens with the dramatic House of Lords vote that determines the Barrington inheritance. As the ruling reshapes the family’s future, Harry Clifton returns to America to promote his new novel, while Emma Clifton dedicates herself to finding the young girl mysteriously abandoned in her father’s office on the night he died.
 
Meanwhile, Giles Barrington faces an intense political battle when an unexpected Conservative opponent threatens his seat in Parliament.
 
The next generation steps into the spotlight when Sebastian Clifton wins a scholarship to Cambridge. But one bad decision sends him down a dangerous path involving high-stakes deception, a forged Rodin sculpture, and enemies who want to use him for their own gain.