Lady Penelope Sterling-Smythe is the most connected dog in any room she enters, and she enters every room that matters. Her family name opens doors that money cannot. Her own reputation opens doors that family names cannot. She moves through the social world of three continents with the ease of someone who has never once been kept waiting, and the discipline of someone who understands that ease is not the same as effortlessness. Penny sits on six boards, chairs two charitable foundations, and has lunch with someone significant every day of the week including Saturdays. She is warm, wickedly funny in private, and absolutely unreadable in public. She has never confirmed or denied a single rumor about herself. She finds this efficient.