For seven years, Isabel Acre has guarded the secret concerning her out-of-wedlock son. She has worked at her marriage, worked at her career and forgotten the past. But the past, they say, will always catch up with you. Jason's real father is standing for the US Presidency and when the interests of powerful men coincide with those of dispensable women and children, the women had better beware...

The facade Isabel has so carefully maintained begins to crumble, and before long, she finds herself locked into a struggle for existence itself!