All these battle scars my love… You're running out of lives. Determined to escape the iron shackles of the Twelve Eve and Oxana are trying something new. Something risky even for them. They're going freelance. Their first client sent their way by MI5 is Majid Ismailov. An international power player and an important friend to Britain Majid is also a passionate racehorse owner with his eye on the racing calendar's most fiercely contested prize - the Prix de Arc de Triomphe run annually in Paris. When one of Majid's prize fillies is stolen from his Newmarket stable Eve and Oxana enter a world new to both of them. What at first appears to be an amateurish ransom attempt is gradually revealed as something more sinister. A carefully plotted move in a superpower chess game. Meanwhile Oxana has a deadly secret of her own a secret that threatens her already volatile relationship with Eve. Can she contain the violence within her before it destroys them both?
