Arno Dace kept businesses clean. But helping an old client clean up the dark operations of a new ‎one had cost him his reputation, his principles, and Rachel, the love of his life.‎
Dace has spent a tough time re-establishing himself, when suddenly Conrad Kitter, the new client, ‎dies in a car crash. Dace is the only one who can help Isobel, Conrad's widow, organise the business ‎to be sold to enable her to escape its clutches - also the only one who could understand what ‎might be behind the crash.‎
The shadowy Guo organisation in Shanghai, Kitter's partners in a global enterprise moving drugs, ‎guns and money through a labyrinthine network, also want to bind Dace back into their operations; ‎his knowledge of their activities had become profound and his skills at reducing risks were ‎necessary to help them operate with less danger.‎
The dangers had become more apparent with Kitter's death - looking like an accident but soon ‎obvious to Dace as a hit job. Where were the threats now to the business? To Dace himself? And ‎to Isobel, whose needs, in her dark times, take her into an ever-closer and more passionate ‎relationship with Dace, even as Rachel reappears in his life!‎
Has Rachel found that the costs of her principles were too high? Will Dace find himself drawn more ‎tightly into the needs and sensual demands of Isobel, offering both rich pleasures and vast wealth?‎