Vivienne Ho has run Praya Capital for five years: no press, two photographs on the fund's own site, both of the other founder. Vivienne Ho is a face Circe fixes by hand before seven each morning, and a life that became real to the woman wearing it.

Circe has spent six years being nobody in particular. By the end of the season a house in Geneva has published half a billion dollars for her body.

Damien Tang loses a container terminal to her on a Thursday and wants her by the weekend. His family opens a file, and he lets it run. The man who loves her has money, no training, and no idea what he is buying.

Circe can wear any face in the world. What her craft cannot survive is being looked at properly, at close range, by somebody who is not going to stop.

He is not going to stop.

A romantic conspiracy thriller for readers of Red Sparrow, First Lie Wins and The Night Manager. Romance and conspiracy carry equal weight, and both are explicit on the page. Book one of a trilogy; it stands alone.

Contains explicit sexual content and graphic violence. Intended for adult readers.