James, early 30s, has drifted through life never knowing where he truly belongs. Adopted as a child and suddenly orphaned again after the unexpected death of his adoptive parents, he’s stunned to discover a generous inheritance left by an anonymous benefactor. The windfall draws him into the orbit of a glamorous circle of jet-set investors who whisk him away on a dream skiing trip and offer him a place in their supposedly ‘can’t-lose’ hedge fund.

 

But after James is nearly killed in an avalanche and forced into a long convalescence at an Alpine hospice, he returns to London to find everything gone — the money, the investors, even his identity. His accounts have been emptied and the men who courted him have vanished.

 

Determined to uncover who wiped him out and why, James begins the hunt. A chance encounter with Beth — another victim of the same group — reveals the con is far deeper and more personal than he thought. Together they chase the trail across London’s financial underworld, and in the process James is forced to confront the mystery he’s avoided all his life: who his real parents were, and why the conspirators targeted him in the first place.