Horizon of Our Hopes is the fourth and final part in the Drake's Drum series of alternate histories and brings the story up to the 21st Century. Having survived the Hitlerian Wars, the United Kingdom must find a new path in a world shattered by conflict. How would it sail the unknown waters of a turbulent future? How would it live? How would it flourish? The nation had to re–invent itself, to resolve the questions of the past and become something new. That much was evident. But how was this to be done?