She married for love. Now it’s all about the money. After the mysterious death of the founder of a family finance firm, his naive widowed bride is caught up in a web of corruption spanning two continents and three decades. Will Samvida discover the truth about her husband in time to save her own life?

Newly married VIDA is branded a gold-digger in the media, although she genuinely loves and trusts her wealthy older husband URBAN EDELDI. After Urban's unexplained death, his firm EDELDICO is thrown into confusion and its corrupt deals risk exposure. Urban's nephew and business partner LUCAN employs a sex film made without Vida's knowledge to try to blackmail her into giving up her inheritance. Fearing for her life, she flees from a luxurious penthouse to an impoverished district undergoing regeneration. Reinventing herself as homeless SAM, she takes shelter in a hostel and finds work at a community hub. She thinks she has found a haven, but she is surrounded by dark forces from her late husband’s past. Who is watching her? Can she trust her entrepreneurial new friends? Before she can take control of her own life and rescue the family firm, SAMVIDA must herself be enslaved and walk in the shadow of death.

The novel highlights the need to empower young women to defeat sexual bullying and fulfil their potential. It also explores the effects on urban and natural environments of money-laundering, and the resulting seduction of young men into criminal activities.The action unfolds in Portugal and continues in London UK. Key encounters take place in neglected corners of the cityscape. Locations include Edeldico's headquarters in the city, a seaside town near Lisbon, a back street café, a community garden and an abandoned graveyard. Events climax at an illegal waste disposal site in the English Midlands. The violent resolution takes place at an abandoned ranch in Brazil.