It was never the case of good people doing nothing; rather if they are prepared to cross the line and kill. After a chance meeting with two investigative journalists, Sam discovers that a man he hasn't seen for over twenty years and those he loves. Confronted with that realisation, he is led on a quest where he will be forced to take the long reach back and place his trust in someone who once betrayal him. But can he forgive that betrayal for the sake of a young child held by captors for whom violence holds no boundaries? And when Penny finds herself face to face with a date in history when the world was at war - a date that has become Sam's moral compass - little does she know that for one man, knowledge that of that moral compass, and that it is Sam's Achilles heel, will bring the two men together for one final showdown. The question is: who will walk away the victor and who will not?

'You Haunt me like a beautiful jewel, hung in ghastly night' - William Shakespeare Sam had kept his final promise to his late wife Annie, but sitting on the steps outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London, he can hear a woman shouting behind him; their meeting will alter the direction of their lives forwver. But was their meeting by accident? Or had fate, or a force beyond their control, drawn them together? Both bear scars from their past: Sam's due to a betrayal of love and trust - caustic memories that eat away at his soul; Penny's because of guilt from early childhood, loney and friendless - blame which won't allow her to believe in herself. When their friendship takes on a momentum of its own, Sam becomes drawn into her life as an actress - and the lives of her two meddling, eccentric aunties. But behind the scenes, simmering revenge and betrayal is being acted out .... a plot that could not only destroy Penny's career and sanity, but Sam's reputation as a man who, come hell or high water, never ever turns his back on friends.