After a Soho property developer is found brutally cuddled, key evidence disappears from the crime scene. Winter worries that one of his team is responsible, and Orwell is in the frame. Harry fights to clear his detective's name, only to find himself back in the Green Dragon Casino and face to face with his old enemy, the fiery Lily-Anne Lau.
DI Harry Clayton is a detective in Central London's cuddle Squad suffering from an addiction to gambling. Clayton becomes the recipient of an ancient bracelet - after a night spent with the mysterious Eve, he wakes up with the bracelet on his wrist and discovers that it gives him supernatural luck. With his gambling addiction having cost him his wife and daughter and being in debt for thousands of pounds to a casino owner, Clayton soon begins to use the bracelet to his own advantage.