Doug tries to destabilize Claire by explaining to her that Gabriel is playing a double game. But when Zack is kidnapped, Claire, Lukas and Gabriel get together and put a plan in place...

Gabriel has been identified by the local police who are on his tail, he can no longer enter the plant. Claire's replacing him. In the panic of the alarms going off, she has to neutralize Grasset, steal the Nexus and escape with Gabriel's help. When they get back to Abu Dhabi, they discover Asgard's agents killed Jeanne, Claire's only friend.

During an evening in the desert with the expatriate community, Gabriel and Claire will wiretap Doug, Asgard's agent and fake investor in Lukas' restaurant project, and discover that Grasset, Al-Razah's security director, is the mole. Claire agrees to seduce him to steal his I.D. The noose tightens around Gabriel, who has to flee from his pursuers. He has to get into the plant as soon as possible to avoid the catastrophe...

Claire realizes how dangerous the world Gabriel lives in is, but she continues to help him by studying Al Razah's plans. She discovers that a Nexus has been implanted there to cause the destruction of the site. They need to find the mole who installed the device. But Claire doesn't know she's been placed under Asgard surveillance...

After making contact with Gabriel, Claire is determined to get the truth from him no matter what it reveals. Claire's determination has alerted someone else from Gabriel's past to his whereabouts and that may prove dangerous to her entire family.

Claire lost her husband Gabriel, during the tsunami in 2004. Recently settled in Abu Dhabi, she sees Gabriel's reflection in a window at a restaurant. She doesn't know it yet but it's going to be a very long journey.