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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.
About the author
Fran Annaford very rarely incorporates autobiographical details into her writing, but she shares a fate with one of her tallest characters, who wanted to be a ballerina before she grew up...and up...and up. Fran's love of the ballet has never left her. She adores the music and the aesthetically beautiful bodies, of both sexes. The characters of this, the third book of The Westminster Series, straddle the worlds of ballet and politics. Fran continues to work in the entertainment industry. With the planet heating up, she is frequently grateful to enter the relative cool and darkness of a performance venue, and to emerge only at night when the small hours afford some respite from the baking summer temperatures.
