Alone on Dartmoor, journalist Erin O'Leary is in hiding from Russian assassins. In a gated community, built on the riuns of an ancient manor house, she shares her exile with a disparate group of new neighbours: Gerald and Sylvia, early retired with social pretensions above their means; Ned and Lisa, newlyweds, who know each other through work, though not very well; and beautiful embittered Auriol, left with the dog her husband no longer wants. None is exactly what they seem; each has a secret of their own. And when the killing begins, they all have motives.