Evelyn volunteers to act as a visiting companion at the exclusive home dispensing assistance, jovial friendship and bonhomie and accepts the task of proof reading a supposedly fictional novel written by a one of the residents whom she surprisingly discovers is a disillusioned, retired spy, Harry. Evelyn soon begins to suspect that the novel is an actual memoir of Harry’s past life as a member of various Intelligence Agencies across the world. If it is a memoir, she soon realizes that it is actually an explosive exposé of the murky intelligence-gathering community which, if published, could bring down the wrath of influential people and put Harry in a life-threatening situation. Are the clues to the murders hidden in Harry’s book and the other perplexing residents of Masterman’s Retreat?