Cordelia Gray goes undercover as a holiday relief at the Claircourt Park Hotel when the proprietor is accused by his wife of sexually harassing female staff. But when she arrives, the woman has disappeared. Then a murderer strikes, throwing the Hampton family into discord.
With the agency struggling, and now pregnant, Cordelia Gray welcomes a seemingly straightforward job. But is the man she is hired to follow a killer or a victim?
Now heavily pregnant, and facing an uncertain future, Cordelia Gray accepts a job from her an adversary, DCS Fergusson, who hires her to spy on his daughter's boyfriend, Tim Bolton, but then abruptly breaks the job off. Then she is hired by his daughter, Laura.