Who would have believed that Alice Whittaker's life could change? She was 37, rich but dowdy, with no career. Her life was a lonely failure, though she had got by with the one thing she did have: money. Then handsome Andrew Fielding came into her life, and just as suddenly her beautiful friend Nesta vanished from it. Alice is determined to find her and help her. But when Alice starts to feel sick – a virus perhaps, something she just can't shake – her new husband Andrew seems determined to keep her at home. Is he just being a doting husband who wants his wife to get better? Or is he trying to keep her from finding Nesta? Unwell though she is, Alice can't help asking questions. And the more she learns about Nesta's disappearance, the more certain she becomes that her own life is in peril.