Nicholas Coleridge

Gazing from his magnificent Chawbury Manor, Miles Straker has it all. But when noveau riche Ross Clegg buys and builds on the land adjoining his country estate, ruining his perfect view, Miles is irate. Even worse, Ross is quickly taken up by the country gentry, who admire his success and his down-to-earth manners. But Miles is a dangerous enemy and he vows to take the Clegg empire apart piece by piece.

Rising from humble origins, Cath Fox uses her shrewd wits to pursue her ambitions from a Portsmouth backstreet to the boardrooms of global empires before championing society as a scorpion-tattooed insider at a royal wedding.

As Anthony Ascombe surveys his Elizabethan estate in Oxfordshire, he discovers that the nearby village houses more than a few reminders of his past life, including his first two wives, as well as the tough, social, high-maintenance, and controlling Dita.