Mr. Stevens who has been the head butler for decades at Darlington Hall now works for the new owner, an American. With an opportunity to drive to Cornwall while his employer is away, he plans to visit Miss Keaton who was once a co-worker under Lord Darlington. Mr. Stevens begins his journey while his thoughts turn to the past. During the 1930s important meetings were held in Darlington Hall as well as incidents between himself and Miss Keaton that he dwells over.
When Innes first spies Lexie in the 1950’s, he is enthralled. She’s desperate to escape her boring English village and her siblings. She heads to London and works in a department store, but Innes soon entices her to his office where they make an inseparable team writing articles for his magazine.
Irene, an unscrupulous treasure hunter teams up with Simone, a drug addict with an abusive husband at the request of Mr Simms to plunder Cambodia’s lost scrolls. From Shanghai, they take a boat immediately after the murder of Simone’s husband, but by the time they reach Saigon and Irene has revealed all the information about the scrolls’ location, she discovers Simone is teaming up with Louis and has her own plans once she gets her hands of the copper scrolls.
Jo’s editor approves a series of articles that Jo intends to research and write for Women in Action. One is about hypnosis and regression that she is sure she’ll disprove. Jo interviews Dr Bennet, a well-known hypnotist and agrees to be hypnotised. Instead of believing she can’t go under, Jo finds herself as Matilda, a woman who lived in Wales 800 year ago. She becomes obsessed with Matilda’s life and finds these regressions begin to take over her life.
What is it that connects her so deeply to Matilda’s life and her association with King John? And how are some of the men she knows in the present bound to this long-ago era?
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