Chloe, heiress to a medical conglomerate, has spent three years being slowly poisoned by her husband Arthur and his assistant Lisa. She is disfigured, locked into the role of a mentally ill patient, and marked for her stem cells to be harvested to save the couple's illegitimate child. Arthur lures her to a snowy cabin in Aspen and plans to pressure her into handing over shares, then plans to take her cells and stage a suicide off a cliff.
A violent spasm in her stomach brings up the poison, and she wakes in time to overhear the whole plan. She also learns that Arthur caused her father's car crash to seize power. Hunted and weakened, she runs barefoot into a blizzard at minus twenty degrees and fights to stay alive. On the edge of death, Victor, who runs a Wall Street giant, finds her, and the story turns from survival into a larger battle for control.
