Scarlett gets more than she bargains for when she starts work at a local advocacy group, run by the mysterious Thomas Sterling. After working only a few weeks, she's quickly promoted and becomes his assistant. Things soon get out of hand and she finds herself lost in a world of sex, drugs and shady business partners. Though questionable business practices aren't the only thing that Thomas seems to be hiding from her, the man displaying strange mannerisms soon after their relationship blossoms into something more serious. Scarlett is left grappling with the fact that the man she thought she knew is far more dangerous than expected. This leaves her spiraling further into Thomas's grasp and into a world most foreign where nothing is as it seems.