Nicholas Rochester was born into riches. The son of a Jamaican millionaire Sebastian Rochester, he was accustomed to getting everything he wanted. When a girl he picked up at a night club ended up dead he forced Logan McLeod who stumbled upon the scene to dump her body at sea or take the fall. Afraid that he could not trust Logan with his secret he broke into Logan's home shot him dead and set the house on fire. Now twenty years later Nicholas is the Deputy Prime Minister shrewdly carving his way to the top but his plans are about to get derailed as his mistress is pregnant and a woman and a man turns up claiming they are Gillian Spencer and Logan McLeod. Nicholas finds he has a battle on his hands as he comes face to face with the Ghosts of his past.