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Following her firing from Pierpoint, a jobless and visa-less Harper has been forced to leave London and return to New York. With no job, no degree, and whispers of impropriety swirling all around her, Harper finds herself the unemployed and unemployable permanent houseguest of fellow Pierpoint alum Danny (who has pivoted to crypto following his return to America).

Back in London, Yasmin has settled into independence (and sobriety) outside of her father’s pernicious grip, and is focused on breaking the toxic cycles of trauma and abuse that have plagued her family. Rob remains entirely in thrall to Nicole — professionally as well as sexually — and has settled into a deeply problematic up but mutually beneficial entanglement with his once-and-present abuser. Gus is busy living his best (but also worst) life circling the globe as Jesse’s extremely overqualified assistant cum smooth-talking Oxbridge mascot (the perks of fucking the boss’s son…). Venetia has decided to stay on at Pierpoint and attempt to enact meaningful change from within…a seemingly thankless task that she might just be cunning and bold enough to pull off. And Eric, bored and adrift without Harper, his protege and muse, discovers that his position at Pierpoint is once again up in the air…

Fixated on the idea of returning to London, Harper becomes convinced that Jesse Bloom can help get her back, and that he owes her as much: if only he would return her calls. Characteristically undaunted by Jesse’s refusal to engage, Harper follows him to a cryptocurrency festival in Miami: America’s capital of sunshine, moral relativism, and un-prosecuted white collar crime. But when a chance encounter with cryptocurrency wunderkind Adam Baum-Cohen (aka “A-Baum”) inspires a flash of brilliance in Harper, Jesse suddenly seems like a very small fish in a very large and very unregulated crypto pond. But even in a place where no one cares where you came from or what you did to get there, Harper starts to realise that she must confront her past if she is ever to fully have a future.