Ordinary People XVII

Tarquin and Adimu are married, and Tristan hassurvived his drug overdose, but can his relationship with Grace survive theordeal, when a new love enters the arena of his thoughts? Megan now knows thatSharon is not dead, as she had feared and assumed, but has no means ofcontacting her, and must let fate decide her future. Meanwhile Abigail and Rossmust decide their own future together, but can they have such a future andremain working at the Manor House? Someone is looking for Molly, whom she hasnot seen since her teens, and it is someone who has come with a particularagenda. Olivia suspects that Horatio, her brother, has met someone who is ofmore significance than he is admitting to, and as she attempts to widen hersocial network, she meets someone who has unexpected connections with the ManorHouse, whilst Lady Elin meets someone by the lake, who awakens in her unwantedand unwelcome feelings. A new tenant comes to live at Beal Street, withconsequences which nobody could have foreseen, although perhaps they could, anda meeting takes place, where Victoria must face the woman that she hates, forthe sake of her dead brothers' son, with no sense as to how she will react uponmeeting her. Tara is on tour with the band, the end comes into sight, whichturns out is not the end, after all. In the final pages of our book, someone appears early onemorning at the steps of the Manor House, which forces Michael to at last facethe consequences of his decisions, and where, in all of the uncertainty, isRebecca? Nobody knows, except Percival, because Percival has been warned.