After a resounding YES vote Westminster conducts a brutal covert campaign against the newly independent Scotland. As a result the paths of opposing intelligence agents Iona McCallum and Emlyn Llewellyn are resolutely entwined.

'What is true and what is real? That which can be verified? Cross-checked? Supported by evidence, perhaps? But verification is dependent on the quality of the verifier. Cross-checking can throw up anomalies. Evidence can be tainted and at the end of the day a high statistical probability of the truth is the best we can offer but it is still...infinitely superior to perception. What we perceive to be true is where we begin, not where we end.'

That was how it all started and now here he was in bed with a woman he hardly knew. A woman he loved who didn't love him and in a strange way it didn't seem to matter. He could make her love him...if he knew how.