Following the deadly events of Dancers in the Wind, freelance journalist and single mother Hannah Weybridge is thrown into the heart of a horrific murder investigation when her friend, Liz Rayman, is found with her throat slashed at her pro bono dental practice for the homeless in the crypt of St John the Evangelist, Waterloo.

With few clues to the apparently motiveless crime, and at the behest of Liz's mother, Lady Rayman, Hannah throws herself into discovering the reason for her friend's brutal murder, determined to unmask the killer. But before long Hannah's investigations place her in mortal danger, her hunt for the truth placing her in the path of a remorseless killer....