A gripping new racing thriller from bestselling author John Francome It's summer, Royal Ascot, & life is good for young trainer Simon Waterford. He has inherited his father's top-class yard, his brilliant two-year-old has just won the Coventry Stakes & he is soon to marry his beautiful half-Brazilian girlfriend. But Mariana has a secret which would wreck her hopes of marriage
- & which Geoff has found out. & he has threatened to tell Simon. On their way back from the races, two rough-looking young men pass lewd comments about Mariana. There's not much of a brawl
- it's over too quickly & is hardly even-handed
- but it leaves Mariana in a sea of blood tending to Simon's wounded face & Geoff lies dead on the floor. It's a tragedy, of course, but Mariana can't help but feel relieved. Her secret is safe, for now...