What if… Queen Elizabeth II had no legal right to the British throne?<br><br>What if… The Queen's entire line, all the way back to George III's fifteen children, was… illegitimate?<br><br>SUCCESSION is based on a little known historical fact.<br><br>SEPTEMBER 6, 1997<br><br>Across the world, two-and-a-half billion people sit glued to the broadcast of Princess Diana's funeral. In Bayonne, New Jersey, surgical resident Dr. Emma Parks watches the somber proceedings over her morning coffee, then hurries to get ready for work. Today's shift, she expects, will be no different from any other… fixing broken bodies, one emergency at a time. But Emma couldn't be more wrong. Today, she'll discover a lover's betrayal. Today she'll save a man's life using a procedure she was never trained for. Today she'll receive a mysterious call from a man riding in a London taxi. And, before the day is out, she'll be suspended from her job.<br><br>But that's just today…<br><br>Tomorrow, a very determined killer will try to end her life.<br><br>Emma Parks always figured her life was pretty ordinary. She's about to discover how extraordinary it really is.<br><br>'Succession' was reviewed in the May/June 2014 issue of Cayman Airways in-flight magazine (p. 16):<br><br>http://caymanairwaysskies.customtravelmags.com/publication/?m=7080&l=1
A WORLD IN TURMOIL<br><br>In the wake of al-Qaeda's catastrophic attacks, western democracies scramble to meet a deadly new threat…<br><br>A LIFE IN TURMOIL<br><br>For legal secretary Grace Palliser, the war on terror is just background noise. Twenty-four years ago, her father shot her mother and then killed himself. Today, Grace's life is a torment of nightmares, drug addiction, and custody fights over her daughter.<br><br>Being framed for murder is just about the last thing Grace Palliser needs…<br><br>But her accidental discovery of a vast international fraud triggers a cascade of terrifying events. Within days, Grace is running for her life, hunted by both the Canadian police and the American FBI. She flees across the continent in a desperate search for the evidence that will clear her.<br><br>Hot on her trail is a corrupt former cop with a simple assignment…<br><br>… to kill Grace Palliser.