John Stride doesn't know that his new boss, Andrew Buchanan is his father. Andrew knows, but he can't reveal the truth even when John starts an affair with his half-sister.

Andrew's bank is in grave difficulty, his marriage is in tatters, his wife is a psychopath and his general manager is plotting his downfall.

John embarks on his new career torn between the integrity that the City demands and the temptation that is put before him by those plotting to use him to destroy his father.

His family become caught in overlapping circles of deceit and revenge, ambition and despair, greed and disappointment from which they do not all emerge alive.