The third spellbinding novel in the Clifton Chronicles.

1945. The vote in the house of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune, ends in a tie. The Lord Chancellor's deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Cliffton anf Giles Barrington.

Harry returns to America to promote his altest novel and Emma goes in search of a little girl who was found in her father's office, the night he was murdered. When the general election is called Giles is horrified to discover that the conservatives has chosen Sebastian Clifton, Emma and Harry's son, to stand against him.

In 1957, Sebastian wins a scholarship to Cambridge. After he is expelled from school, he unwittingly becomes involved in an international art fraud involving a Rodin statue that is worth far more than the sum it raises at an auction. Does he become a millionaire? Does he go to Cambride? Is his life in danger?

Best Kept Secret will answer all these questions, and pose so many more!!