Kate — Karen Mason

Part two of The Line of Passion Trilogy. Government minister, Julia Newbury is about to be named as the successor to the Prime Minister, but her ambitions could be thwarted by the exposure of her affair with a Polish builder. She feels as though her future is being shaped by her past â€" both her mother and grandmother risked everything they had by embarking in passionate affairs with unsuitable people.

Book Two looks at Kate, Julia's mother; the beautiful actress who at thirty-seven, is beginning to feel her age. It is the Swinging Sixties and everywhere Kate turns, there are younger women snapping at her heels and she knows her days as a sex symbol are numbered. Her marriage is crumbling, and when her father dies, a shocking family secret rocks Kate to her core. She reassesses her life, and when she falls in love with a young starlet, she finally has to face up to who she really is.