The Public Coronation

Later that night, the high-speed elevator carried Alistair and Clara to the penthouse suite of the Boston Harbor Hotel. The sprawling glass-and-mahogany suite looked out over the glittering expanse of the harbor, where the riding lights of dozens of container ships and luxury yachts danced across the black ocean waters like fallen stars. Standing together by the floor-to-ceiling glass of the penthouse suite, looking out over the moonlit waters of…