Helen Jencks is a beautiful and highly successful trader at a major bank in London. But her troubled past makes her the perfect fall girl in a multi-million-dollar scam. When Helen discovers the set-up, her carefully rebuilt life is threatened with destruction. She escapes to lie low as far from danger as she can possibly imagine - in Peru.
While the scandal unfolds back in London, Helen discovers that Peru is anything but a safe haven. Her past begins to catch up with her, setting her on a collision course with danger and betrayal.
Soon, together with the beguiling and secretive Evan Connor, she is on the run through the mountains and jungles of this ancient land. Only here, in a desperate and gruelling battle to survive, will Helen Jencks find the answers to the questions that have always haunted her.