Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia. Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue the woman he loves from behind the Iron Curtain. Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy and can see no way out until she is introduced to the hapless Cyrus T. Grant III at Royal Ascot. Sebastian Clifton is now the Chief Executive of Farthings Bank; his personal life is thrown into disarray when he falls for a beautiful Indian girl. Harry Clifton remains determined to get Anatoly Babakov released from a gulag in Siberia. But then something unexpected happens that none of them could have anticipated.