Art gallery curator Giselle Villande and her husband, an antique dealer from Menton in the south of France, find themselves drawn into an insidious web of poisoning and murder motivated by financial greed and sexual jealousy. Nebulous tendrils of evil draw them still further to Paris and Honfluer then finally to Giselle's isolated family home on the wild and beautiful Northumbrian coast. In this sexually-charged labyrinthine conspiracy a plot is afoot to undermine and ultimately destroy Giselle's family.

Volume Three of The Roxberg Trilogy A premeditated act of revenge sends adventurous restaurant owner Gaston Villande on a dangerous mission to Venice, where he becomes the target of victimisation and attack from members of his wife's extended family. Gaston is no stranger to personal risk, but as the conspiracy deepens and danger threatens, he will be forced to escalate an old vendetta to a level he could never have envisaged, a level calculated to bring yet more tragedy to himself and his family. His enemies are closing in, planning reprisals, arming themselves, intent on revenge for the...