Sophie Jenner believes she has her life under control. In business she's a City high-flyer, heading up a new venture funding ecological projects in South America. In her personal life, despite the games played by her domineering boss, she believes she cracks the whip.

But when Sophie travels to South America to investigate a possible fraud all her assumptions are stripped away. In the Peruvian jungle the uptight City executive meets a breed of man she cannot tame. And now Sophie is no longer holding the whip . . .