John Brock is a British spy who knows something his enemies are desperate to learn. After being forcibly abducted and transported to Burma for interrogation, he finds himself imprisoned with an unlikely cellmate. Caroline Wells is a Canadian widow waylaid and imprisoned by the cruel military junta oppressing Burma. Bereaved yet seeking a new purpose in life, she has relied on her faith to survive her captivity so far, but her hope has been waning. Now, with Brock as a cellmate, she sees change ahead for both of them. These two people from very different worlds must now learn to trust each other enough to find a way out of prison and out of Burma, pursued all the while by soldiers, leopards, and foreign spies. What love can be forged in the jungles of Burma?