Susan Furlong, an attractive thirty-year-old, is obsessed with her desire for revenge against the man who raped her twelve years earlier. But J. P. Murray, a powerful businessman with influential friends in 'the natural party of government', is not to be the only victim of Susan's vengeance. Getting back the daughter she conceived as a result of the rape becomes her goal. All those who stand in her way, who try to silence her, to keep her story from the media will suffer. Who can stop her? Emma Boylan, investigative journalist, a young woman who has the guts to go where the police and government investigations fear to tread. It is up to her to ask the right questions, to pursue the evaders.