Ava has been in Hong Kong looking after Uncle. She has also set up an investment company with May Ling Wong and her sister-in-law, Amanda Yee. One of their first investments--a furniture company owned by two sisters in Kota Kinabalu, Borneo--runs into immediate problems with a Dutch customer. Ava goes to the Netherlands to investigate, but her life is threatened when she is confronted by a gang of local thugs in Borneo and out of the shadows comes a mysterious man from Shanghai.