Devastated by the death of her husband, Lara Steele finds herself floundering in an emotional abyss. In a bid to deal with her grief and get her life back on track she hooks up with her old school friend Slade who introduces her to the exhilarating world of kickboxing and helps her to establish a small private investigation firm. Still learning the ropes she cuts her investigative teeth on low key cases, chasing errant husbands and finding lost pets.
On the home front, Lara is forced to share her house with her cantankerous and demanding alcoholic mother who does nothing to relieve her burden. Faced with a multitude of domestic problems that she has to deal with single- handedly, she throws herself into her work as a means of escape.
It’s obvious that Lara’s kickboxing instructor Alex has feelings for her but reluctant to become romantically involved again she keeps him at arm’s length. Everything is going to plan until Lara’s world is thrown into turmoil when she lands a new case and gets sucked into the unfamiliar world of gay nightclubs, pornography and exotic cabaret. It soon becomes apparent that her life is in danger when Paris, a sociopathic drag queen starts to stalk her and poisons her dogs. Just when Lara is certain that everything is under control, events take a turn for the worse when her elderly eccentric PA , Matty vanishes. A frantic midnight phone call leads Lara to an isolated cabin and a deadly encounter where Lara is forced to outwit a deranged killer to survive.