New York: St Martin's, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first contemporary novel by this author best known for his historical mysteries featuring gentleman sleuth Charles Lennox. In this, Will Baker, a young American "embarks on a year at Oxford and has an impassioned affair that will change his life.
After graduating from Yale, he went to work in presidential politics. But when the campaign into which he's poured his heart ends in disappointment, he decides to leave New York behind, along with the devoted, ambitious, and well-connected woman he's been in love with for the last four years.Will expects nothing more than a year off before resuming the comfortable life he's always known, but he's soon caught up in a whirlwind of unexpected friendships and romantic entanglements." SIGNED on the title page. 323 pp. ISBN: 978-1250018717.