The dazzling Lytton twins, Adele and Venetia, are born into the great
Lytton publishing empire. In 1928, on their eighteenth birthday, they
are rich and admired, with a confidence verging on arrogance. But the
specter of Nazi Germany is growing...Gradually their privileged world
darkens in unimaginable ways--but it is not just the twins whose lives
have been irrevocably changed. Barty Miller, rescued from the London
slums in babyhood by Celia Lytton, is clever, ambitious, and a complete
contrast to the twins--and she faces temptation of the most unexpected
kind...