When the bank pulls the plug John and Susan Carter have thirty days to find one-and-a-half-million pounds or they will lose their home, their business, everything they've worked for. Then out of the blue the mysterious Mr Sarotzini offers them a deal. Their financial problems solved on one condition: Susan must be the surrogate mother of his child. But who is Sarotzini, and why does anyone who asks end up dead? How come he knows so much about the Carters? Just what is the truth about Sarotzini and why Susan's pregnancy hurts so much...