Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died Sebastian or his best friend Bruno?
When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don Pedro Martinez intends to install his puppet the egregious Major Alex Fisher in order to destroy the Barrington family firm just as the company plans to build its new luxury liner the MV Buckingham.
Back in London Harry and Emmas adopted daughter wins a scholarship to the Slade Academy of Art where she falls in love with a fellow student Clive Bingham who asks her to marry him. Both families are delighted until Priscilla Bingham Jessicas future mother-in-law has a visit from an old friend Lady Virginia Fenwick who drops her particular brand of poison into the wedding chalice.
Then without warning Cedric Hardcastle a bluff Yorkshireman who no one has come across before takes his place on the board of Barringtons. This causes an upheaval that none of them could have anticipated and will change the lives of every member of the Clifton and Barrington families. Hardcastles first decision is who to support to become the next chairma
