Cadenza

Rockliffe Series recommended in THE TIMESThe performance finished in a flourish of technical brilliance and the young man rose from the harpsichord to a storm of applause.Julian Langham was poised on the brink of a dazzling career when the lawyers lured him into making a catastrophic mistake. Now, instead of the concert platform, he has a title he doesn't want, an estate verging on bankruptcy ... and bewildering responsibilities for which he is totally unfitted.And yet the wreckage of Julian's life is not a completely ill wind. For Tom, Rob and Ellie it brings something that is almost a miracle ... if they dare believe in it.Meanwhile, first-cousins Arabella Brandon and Elizabeth Marsden embark on a daring escapade which will provide each of them with a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The adventure will last only a few weeks, after which everything will be the way it was before. Or so they think. What neither of them expects is for it to change a number of lives ... most notably, their own.And there is an additional complication of which they are wholly unaware.The famed omniscience of the Duke of Rockliffe.