Eve Diamond has been looking forward to a date at the theatre with her new man, Silvio Aguilar. But when the play's beautiful and notoriously unstable lead actress fails to appear, Eve learns that Silvio and the missing woman share a complicated past. It looks as if the actress may have been abducted - or worse - and when it becomes clear that Silvio is no stranger to her home, or her bed, Eve must stifle her own feelings of betrayal and fight to clear his name. She knows Silvio is innocent...doesn't she? Summoning her journalist's skills and steeling herself for further revelations, Eve investigates - and discovers an enigmatic drama tutor, a powerful movie mogul and a lecherous political yes-man. And one of them is prepared to do anything to stop Eve getting to the truth.