Be Careful What You Wish For

The fourth book in the internationally bestselling Clifton Chronicles from master storyteller Jeffrey ArcherOne of the top ten storytellers in the world. Los Angeles TimesBe Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died Sebastian or his best friend Bruno When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don Pedro Martinez intends to install his puppet the egregious Major Alex Fisher in order to destroy the Barrington family firm just as the company plans to build its new luxury liner the MV Buckingham. Back in London Harry and Emmas adopted daughter wins a scholarship to the Slade Academy of Art where she falls in love with a fellow student Clive Bingham who asks her to marry him. Both families are delighted until Priscilla Bingham Jessicas future motherinlaw has a visit from an old friend Lady Virginia Fenwick who drops her particular brand of poison into the wedding chalice. Then without warning Cedric Hardcastle a bluff Yorkshireman who no one has come across before takes his place on the board of Barringtons. This causes an upheaval that none of them could have anticipated and will change the lives of every member of the Clifton and Barrington families. Hardcastles first decision is who to support to become the next chairman of the board Emma Clifton or Major Alex Fisher And with that decision the story takes yet another twist that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Be Careful What You Wish For showcases the master storytellers talent as never before when the Clifton and Barrington families march forward into the sixties in this epic tale of love revenge ambition and betrayal.THE CLIFTON CHRONICLES SERIESBOOK 1 Only Time Will TellBOOK 2 The Sins of the FatherBOOK 3 Best Kept SecretBOOK 4 Be Careful What You Wish ForBOOK 5 Mightier Than The SwordBOOK 6 Cometh The Hour