The City of London in the 1990s is a dark, adrenaline- charged square mile deep in recession, where sex is just another commodity and keeping ones integrity is a daily struggle. Gavin Blake is riding high. Hes up to his neck in money, sex and sleaze, but hes young, and handsome and hes making a lot of money. Carta Graham wants nothing more than to forget her life as a high- flying lawyer, so shes buried herself in a fund-raising project for the City Church of St Benets. When she meets Gavin, she thinks the only thing they share is a temporary sexual attraction, but shes wrong. They are about to change each others lives forever. For Gavin comes to see that in order to survive he must escape from the harrowing world he inhabits. His fight for freedom will be hard and fierce, but Carta, searching for her own freedom from the past, is with him every step of the way