When Zoe and Jack meet in a chemistry classroom in Harvard, they couldn't be more different- she's the daughter of a renowned MIT professor, he's escaping an upbringing steeped in poverty - but they are immediately drawn to one another.

Neither knows it yet, but in two years' time, they will have dropped out of college and become business partners in a billion-dollar company that promises longer life. But as they become wrapped up in a maelstrom of insatiable ambition, greed and ultimately deceit, their love for each other will be tested to its very limit...