Wayne Shakespeare, ex-pro footballer and now security consultant to a university, likes women. He likes Tracey Holroyd, a psychology student who's involved with Rag Week. He also likes the curvaceous and provocative Juliet Bromage, whose only disadvantage is that she is the daughter of his millionaire boss. Most of all he likes the enigmatic Kate Park, a beautiful sexologist recovering from bereavement who moves in as his lodger. When Wayne gets mixed up in a vicious kidnapping, he will need to keep his wits about him with all three women, to say nothing of the one with black hair who stalks the fringes of his world with murder in her heart ...