Colin Ashby, a political high-flier, is arrested for the murder of a young woman. The salacious news is brought to his wife Beth not by him, but by Laurie Forbes, a young journalist. As the mystery of her husband's predicament unfolds, both women face terrifying questions.Beth, in agony, must guess what is going through her husband's mind. Is he guilty? As scandalous revelations concerning Colin emerge, her world is shattered. Laurie devotes herself to the story, risking her job at a national newspaper and, though at first she is unaware of it, her own safety. It becomes clear that the powerful players involved will stop at nothing to obtain her information and throw her off the scent. The treacherous truth is emerging, and Laurie realises that she must work with her arch rival Elliot Russell, confronting in the process a ghost from her own past, to offer Beth salvation. Beth, though, is beginning a new life. One which seems marked for disaster. She throws herself into an underworld of glamorous excess, sensual pleasures and influential men.