A man is murdered in the gardens of a Bristol hotel. Inquiries reveal that he worked as an escort for a local agency. Rose Piper, investigating DCI, cannot trace the woman he was on his way to meet, but another suspect enters the frame. Until, that is, another employee of Avon Escorts is found dead. In the heart of the Somerset countryside, Freddie and Constance Lange live a comfortable existence on land the Lange family have owned for centuries. Freddie, farming as his father and grandfather had done before him, adores his wife. An ex-nurse, Constance is indispensable to the community for her solid calm and support. But when Constance and her beloved son fall out, the Langes idyllic family life is fractured. A darkness creeps into the family, culminating in tragedy. The two very different worlds of Rose Piper and Constance Lange collide in a tense story of sexual obsession and revenge