When American pilot Steve McKenna is murdered, he takes with him secrets about an international crime ring. Secrets that he only reveals to his friend Cullen Danes, an investigator for the British Aviation Ministry. Cullen is determined to find his friend's killer, but his life is put in danger when the crime ring's operatives learn he knows secrets that can expose them. Cullen never thought his life would depend on a woman whom he met for the first at the International Aviation Convention, but Nina Holt proves to be a godsend saving his life in more ways than one. Together, they uncover a labyrinth of illicit activities that involves government officials, bank executives, and global industrialists, but Nina and Cullen's true test comes when he asks her to take a leap of faith. Torn between jumping into the unknown or remaining with her family, Nina has to decide whether to take the biggest risk of her life. That is if the King Maker does not have them killed.