In post-war London Viv Pearce, seeing married spiv Reggie, runs a dating bureau with Helen Giniver, who lives with her older lover, authoress Julia Standing. Viv s younger brother Duncan, a tormented homosexual, has been in prison and is sought out by his - straight - ex-cellmate Robert Fraser, who served time as a conscientious objector and is now concerned for the boy s welfare. Viv encounters Kay Langrish, a wealthy, reclusive butch lesbian and for both women this evokes memories of 1944 when Kay was an heroic ambulance driver and Helen was Kay s girlfriend, before Kay introduced her to her ex-lover Julia. Viv had an illegal abortion, funded by Reggie, and, after she needed hospital treatment, Kay saved her from prosecution by claiming she was a married woman who had miscarried. Three years earlier Kay and Julia are still an item and Viv meets unhappily married soldier Reggie on a train...

John Milton is up against the clock: Jonah King, the leader of a Satanic cult, has murdered Milton s daughter and kidnapped her baby. In three days, King and his followers will sacrifice the child at midnight. Milton picks up the trail in Oklahoma as well as rescuing a waitress named Piper from her brutal, two-timing fianc?©. There are odd things about Milton: his driver s license is out of date, he has a very strange gun, and he s being pursued by a man in a suit who carries FBI ID and calls himself the Accountant. Piper, who s lived a life on the sidelines, has to piece things together on the fly as they close in on King.

John Milton is up against the clock: Jonah King, the leader of a Satanic cult, has murdered Milton s daughter and kidnapped her baby. In three days, King and his followers will sacrifice the child at midnight. Milton picks up the trail in Oklahoma as well as rescuing a waitress named Piper from her brutal, two-timing fiance. There are odd things about Milton: his driver s license is out of date, he has a very strange gun, and he s being pursued by a man in a suit who carries FBI ID and calls himself the Accountant. Piper, who s lived a life on the sidelines, has to piece things together on the fly as they close in on King.