What's the worst that can happen when a new romance goes wrong - you end up with a broken heart and put it down to experience? Not when self-styled entrepreneur Brendan Block is involved. He's not a man to let go easily - as Miranda Cotton finds out in this love and revenge thriller based on the best selling Nicci French novel.

Celebrating a friend's birthday Miranda is attracted to a new man in their crowd. A night of passionate sex is the start of an intense romance, that end abruptly when she discovers Brendan in her apartment reading her private diary. Miranda puts the brief fling behind her but Brendan is not finished with her yet. Three weeks later her younger sister Kerry excitedly reveals she has a new boyfriend - Brenden Block.

How far will Block go to get his revenge on Miranda? Her parents adore him and Miranda is growing increasingly worried about his influence on Troy, her manic depressive brother. Events take a tragic turn when Troy leaps to his death from Miranda's roof and she's convinced that Brendan is involved. No-one believes her, dismissing her concerns as grief mixed with jealousy.

When another person she loves is found dead, Miranda realizes that the only way to beat her manipulative ex-lover is to turn the tables on him. Soon, she finds herself in a terrifying war of nerves with a master of the game. She has to prove he's a killer and she's prepared to risk her own life to do it.