Betrayal is a fast moving story of intrigue set in New South Wales, Australia . Initially the story moves off in Sydney with publishing exec Ariel Janadis reporting to her Immunologist Ian Chalmers for some test results. These two people are lovers. It becomes clear that Ariel is stricken with a rare immune system. She journeys to the mid north coast of NSW to rest and recuperate at Ian Chalmers holiday home on the beach at Lake Cathie. It appears as the story unfolds that she has contracted this rare disease from an old lover Jurgen Mueller. He is an international engineer who happens to be bi-sexual. He also runs a cocaine smuggling operation out of Thailand and his clients are elite Sydney siders.