Julia Laing is a winner - beautiful, vivacious, publicity director of London's top hotel. Robert Brand is charismatic, handsome - with his vast fortune he can work magic. Together they make a golden couple, the world at their feet.

Together they can almost forget Robert's unhappy marriage to Grace, a union bound by secrets a generation old ... until, suddenly, Julia's world is shattered by tragedy, and she begins to realise that her perfect life with Robert may have been built on a lie...

Determined to uncover the facts, Julia hires private detective Guy Ravenel to track down the truth. his plan is daring and dangerous, but not even he can foresee the horrors they will uncover, or the ruthlessness of Julia's enemies...