Sophie Rivers can't wait to settle into married life now that new husband Mike is back from touring Pakistan with the England cricket team. So when she's offered a temporary job at his home ground, archiving a collection of memorabilia that has been left to Warwickshire Cricket Club, she jumps at the chance. But once news gets out that the bequest contains some priceless objects, Sophie and her colleagues become the victims of a terrifying campaign of intimidation and violence. It seems that someone will stop at nothing to get what they want, and when some of the most valuable items go missing, along with the museum's curator, things start to look very sinister indeed. Meanwhile, Mike has started to behave increasingly oddly and Sophie is convinced he is hiding something from her. While she is spending more and more time at the cricket ground, Mike seems determined to avoid it. But is it Sophie, or the club itself that is driving him away?