Olive Anderson, wife of Michael Anderson MP, has gone missing. Late in the evening, in a heavy snow-storm, Olive walked out of her hotel in Cumbria with a mysterious stranger and hasn’t been seen since. Given the weather, and the perilous state of the roads, police are concerned for her safety.

We are even more so, because despite being supposedly happily married to the ‘sexiest man in Parliament’, Olive allowed herself to be seduced by the mysterious stranger – a beautiful woman – only to find out that the stranger filmed the entire encounter and is threatening to post footage on the internet if Olive doesn’t leave the hotel immediately. Terrified that her life is about to fall apart, Olive feels she has no choice, but as the two of them drive away into the night, she wonders whether she might have chosen the more deadly of two very dangerous paths.

And then they skid on black ice; the car leaves the road, plummeting into a ravine.

PC Garry Mizon is assigned to the case. At school he had a huge crush on Olive, so is keen to find her safe and well. Trouble is, as police officers go, Garry isn’t very good. He hates police work and dreams of being a florist. And when he learns that Olive might not be the first woman connected to Michael Anderson either to die mysteriously, or vanish without trace, he knows he’s well out of his depth.

Did Olive survive the crash? Will Garry find her in time? And are we looking at one fake wife? Or several?