Schoolgirl Janice Watson is brutally raped at a party while under the influence of the drug Rohypnol. Twenty five years later, her daughter Rose, aged 24, now working as a high-class escort, is found murdered at her home in Chelsea. During D.I. Parish's investigation into her death, he discovers that Rose's mother Janice, was also murdered two years previously, coincidentally at around the same time as Parish's wife and daughter were killed in a bizarre motoring accident. Parish begins to piece together a puzzle that appears to link all the deaths to one person. But, that person is Lord...