Twenty-five year old Patricia Kent has inherited a share of Selbridge Furniture from an aunt. Trish travels to Queensland to cast the deciding vote on whether to sell the foundering family business and discovers that this particular branch of the family has a strange and troubled past. Cousin Julian has vanished. Eleanor Selbridge West is a shattered and embittered recluse who never fully recovered from her husband Julian's attempt on her life. One of Eleanor's brothers, Nigel Selbridge, is under a cloud of suspicion for embezzling company funds, and another, Gordon, may be smuggling heroin. Trish is determined to save the company, but suddenly a new series of disasters strikes: a fire hits the plant and a valued employee is brutally murdered.
