Two families vacation at Culloden House and become embroiled in murder most mysterious and murder most foul. Banistre Richard Wade, a retired MI5 officer is murdered in the lovely gardens of the historic Culloden House. Wade used his MI5 experience and shady contacts in the London and international underworld to solicit clients for his firms security software. Somewhere, a fifty million pound b ibe has been paid and the money has disappeared. MI6 Officer Sommes is tasked to find the fifty million. He targets Wade's trophy wife, the young Carol Wade in an elaborate scheme to not only secure the Iranian bribe money but to romance and marry the wealthy widow now forty-five million pounds richer thanks to the death of her husband Banistre Wade who has been labeled a traitor for committing espionage on a grand scale by betraying his country and giving Iran the means to neutralize the surveillance software utilized by MI5 which keeps the Iranians under surveillance and control. Follow the Inverness Police and MI5 as they attempt to solve the murder mystery of the traitor Banistre Wade and recover the fifty million pounds in Iranian bribe money while Carol Wade turns to an unlikely savior, Jason Connors in a bid to ward off Frank Nichols of MI6 and his bid to divest her of her inheritance and widow's share of forty five million pounds from the sale of her late husband's software business possibly through forfeiture to the Crown unless she marries him.