Young Ashley Jones, a medical doctor turned research scientist, is on the verge of making a discovery that attracts the attention of some very dangerous characters.
Enter her life the dashing government official Maxwell Langley, and her up until then fairly uneventful life is turned upside down. Is Maxwell Langley the well intentioned man he portrays to be or is there more to him then meets the eye?
When her laboratory is destroyed at her family estate in Hobart Tasmania, an offer to lure her to Melbourne to complete her research proves irresistible.
Some truly evil characters with self serving agendas appear on the scene, and Ashley is thrown into a world of deception where nothing is as it seems.