His job is to neutralise risk. Hers is to turn a blind eye. But the stakes are too high this time. She needs to get to this risk first. And hide it. After a terrible few months and the collapse of her world, Emma Andreyev is trying.She's trying to reinvent herself, trying to recover, trying to pretend she isn't devastated. Yet when an acquaintance sends a plea for help, she can't ignore him. He's calling in a debt and she needs to pay. But it's messy, complex, and requires secrecy and deceit, the two things which ruined her marriage to Rohan the first time. When the Actuary accepts a government contract to capture a hacker, he has no idea his competition this time is his wife.