When her brother is murdered, journalist Edie Hansen is pulled back to her turbulent past, and finds herself grappling with Cape Town's crumbling police force, a corrupt political system and the secretive world of extreme wealth.
When a wealthy businessman is murdered and his wife is bludgeoned into a coma in their house in the suburb of Bishopscourt in Cape Town, their children become prime suspects.
Edie's attempts to find a witness to the murder place her in peril high on a mountainside, and she learns some information she doesn't like at all; Daniel is abducted by masked assailants at gunpoint.
Detective Forty Bell nearly loses his life rescuing Daniel from a drug gang; Edie's tentative closeness with her nephew is shattered when she makes a shocking discovery at an out-of-control party in Bishopscourt.