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Spring weather and the boy—they both came to Brackley the day that Hitler annexed Austria, or at least what was left of it.
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Spring, 1938. Cloistered in the English countryside, George Russell has spent his life being polished into the perfect instrument of Toto Wolff’s will. Dragged out of the working class slums, George's position at the head of Toto's manufacturing empire feels earned—bought with his own ambition and the complicated intimacy they share behind closed doors.
That hard-won security is shattered by the arrival Toto’s estranged nephew, Kimi, spirited from Fascist Italy under a cloud of secrets. George knows that Kimi has been brought to Brackley as a potential rival, but the manor's claustrophobic halls have a way of driving them close together. As the pressure mounts, George has to decide how far he's willing to go to secure a place at Toto's right hand--or if the position was ever his to earn at all