Suzie Cotton, single and content to be so, a lab technician at Hargreaves & Treader Enterprises Ltd, is working with her boss Martin and colleagues to produce energy from artificial photosynthesis. Embarking on an unexpected relationship with a dashing wealthy man her world becomes unsettled and confused, not knowing who she can trust. Meanwhile, at work, close to a breakthrough, the environmental research teams are under threat from Trio Chemical Company, the owner of which has threatened to buy them out and close them down. Despite struggling against a background of surprising bad press articles and a string of disasters and misfortunes, Suzie's romance blossoms. But can she and her friends determine who is behind the slurs and sabotage and what is their motive? Is it the obvious or the obscure? Has Suzie truly found the man of her dreams or the viper in the nest?