About the book: 2001 / Three years ago the First World War ended. The British aristocracy is in full swing restoring family estates, which until recently were converted into sanatoriums for recovering officers and soldiers, there are noisy balls, weddings are played, bets are placed on the races at Ascot and even traditional parforce hunts are held... Lord Woodsworth's youngest daughter Virginia Spencer-Keats, rejoicing at post-war liberalization morals, dreams of a career as a businesswoman and, hiding her high origins, is hired as a secretary to Colonel Richard Dickerson. They couldn't help but fall in love with each other. And everything would have worked out for them, but suddenly it turns out that during the war, after a night raid by German Zeppelins, Virginia’s late brother and the colonel’s wife were found together among the ruins of one of the London hotels. Will the lovers be able to overcome the abyss that has opened before them??