Breaking into the newspaper business in 1960s Sydneya competitive world dominated by hard-edged menisnt easy for a woman. But Blaise Hill is far from ordinary. The only female in The Clarions newsroom, her long-held dream of being a reporter has come true. Blaise isnt chasing stories just to make a name for herself; shes helping support her family and her beloved sister Ivy, whose life has been transformed by polio. But the ambitious young journalists confidence is shaken when she secretly witnesses the murder of a top crime bossa death that rocks the Sydney underworld. One of the few people who knows what really happenedand what Blaise knowsis the handsome, enigmatic Adam Rule, who helps cover up the murder. When she gets a plum assignmentmoving to England to cover the British royal familyBlaise hopes to put it all behind her. Carving her own path among the scandal and intrigue of the Swinging Sixties in London, life is just about perfectuntil the night she attends Queen Elizabeths gala in honor of the upcoming nuptials of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones. Among the exclusive crowd is the last man she ever wanted to seeAdam Rule.
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