Neelima Rastogi aged seventy nine dies. No-one is surprised. None of the family she loved to rule over and torment. She was old, ailing. And yet some of them are. Her niece Roshni, for instance. Her aunt always seemed to her to be invincible. Alive. Vital. Then they discover she has been poisoned. Suicide? Certainly not! None of the members of her family are prepared to consider the possibility. It leaves only one other possibility. One they cannot consider. Murder. Roshni is frightened by the idea that it might be one of them. Suddenly her safe world is filled with danger and she finds herself looking over her shoulder, eyeing all those familiar faces with reluctant suspicion. Surely it couldn't be----! Who? Why? Caught in a bewildering maze of emotions, she comes face to face with Akash- Akash whom she had once loved long ago- and remembering......... It is up to SP Saxena to solve the murder and race against a clever murderer who leaves very few clues to his identity. Slowly the truth begins to emerge..... It is a truth that can completely destroy the Rastogi family. A secret that Neelima Rastogi had been hiding for years. That she had been blackmailed for. A truth for which she had paid with her life. Now Saxena has to move fast to find proof before the killer strikes again.......