For years the billionaire Christy Pyon has managed to elude the attentions of the paparazzi, but when a chance photograph of him and an erotic new mistress appears in magazines all over Europe, Pyon's hot-blooded wife Maria vows revenge. Pyon finds his multinational takeover being threatened.
Already a leading jockey in his home country, Jake Felton comes to England to further his career and avoid confrontation with New York's racing mafia. But his plans to combine the life of an English squire with that of a top-flight jockey look like coming to a sticky end when he falls victim to a series of accidents that begin to seem all too deliberate. Aided and abetted by typical English rose Camilla Fielding, Jake discovers that he's been targeted by a ruthless and professional killer. And now he urgently needs to find out why...