Set in the 1990s, an unmarried Economics professor falls in love with a young graduate student and jeopardizes her safety by his wanting to discontinue secretly doing investment work for Russian millionaires.
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John Sam Patch teaches at various universities not seeking tenure. He falls in love with a young woman while at Stanford, and she becomes pregnant. Unbeknownst to her, he is doing investment work for Russian millionaires who prevent him quitting his work for them by threatening the safety of Audrey, the mother of his unborn child. To keep her safe, he abandons her, but later follows her to London to rekindle their love.
Crystal Reed thought she had met the perfect man. Instead she finds herself entangled in a web of obsessive love and dark secrets, a world that has become tainted by deception and treachery.