Found Wanting

One afternoon, Richard is standing at the kerb when a car pulls up beside him. Its driver, waving from behind the windscreen, is Gemma, the ex-wife he has not seen or spoken to in several years. When they last parted, she had made it clear they had nothing left to say to one another. Now something has pushed her to seek him out, and whatever it is feels urgent.

What begins as a reunion becomes a frantic chase that carries Richard from London across northern Europe. Along the way he is drawn into a puzzle that stretches back to the past: the fate of Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and the last of the Romanovs. From that point on, Richard's life is altered in ways he could not have foreseen.