A thriller with a sharp, disturbing edge that crosses over financial crisis, corporate deals, murder, love, conspiracy and arcane science and philosophy. A woman's search for her mysteriously missing husband turns into one to find herself. Sonya Wheen, a mid-30s university business professor is confronted by her husband gone missing, a murder and a financial meltdown. Her husband Michael Hunt, shadowy and largely absent, is an eccentric stock market trader with a baffling past. In the first chapter he vanishes, leaving Sonya distraught and owing millions to a bank foreclosing on their Sydney beach house, and many unanswered questions. It gets worse... a corporate chief executive is murdered and police suspect Michael. Trying to uncover the truth about Michael and track him down, Sonya stumbles across some strange files stock market data that predicts future prices... files that will change her life forever. She is stunned... the data points to a looming collapse of global markets. Desperate to get the bank off her back, she risks everything she's got left and makes millions as tottering financial giants like Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and AIG push the world to the brink of chaos. Now, with more than enough money to follow Michael's trail and uncover the truth, Sonya seeks out one of the world's best scientific brains to help crack the mysterious files. Their attempts to find Michael lurch them unwittingly into a conspiracy, and the physics and philosophy of time.