When Georgia, a single university researcher and an expert in facial recognition techniques, is offered a three-month assignment by the Foreign Office, it seems an ideal opportunity to break from her mundane existence and experience life in exotic Hong Kong. An attraction soon grows between her and Adam MacLean, her boss, which leads to a brief affair.Back in London, two years later a chance meeting leads Georgia to further work opportunities with Adam as well as a blossoming friendship. All is not well when another colleague from Hong Kong arrives in London determined to cause problems for Georgia and to blackmail Adam.