Publisher's Synopsis
Susan Hooper is private secretary to bestselling author Vivian Proudfoot. Well-spoken, she soon learns how to hold her own with London's literary sophisticates. But the attentions of Mercer Hughes, a handsome agent with a notorious reputation, are more than she can cope with and she finds herself falling reluctantly in love. She is soon cut off from her father and at loggerheads with her brother. Even her old friend, newspaperman Danny Cahill, is shocked at the circles in which Susan finds herself - where gangsters rub shoulders with wealthy fascist sympathisers in support of the war in Spain. As the threat of world war grows, Susan is torn between loyalty to her family and a lover who will not let her go.
