For envious wannabes who saw her photograph in the social pages of Australian newspapers, Charlotte Lindstrom had a lifestyle to die for. There was the rich fiance, the swanky harbour apartment, the keys to the Porsche.
Blonde and beautiful, the part-time model mixed with the beautiful people and cashed-up businessmen who made up Sydney's exclusive party set. But behind the glittering facade was a chilling tale of cold-blooded murder.
What none of her friends knew - or even suspected - was that Lindstrom was organising the killing of two witnesses in a major drugs case for which her lover, Steven Spaliviero, was the prime suspect.
'In the hospital or the cemetery?' asked the hitman when he met the slim and strikingly beautiful Swedish woman outside the Sydney Town Hall last year.
'Cemetery,' came the chilling reply.
What Lindstrom didn't realise was that the apparent assassin was, in fact, an undercover policeman. The game was up.
Faced with the prospect of spending much of the rest of her life behind bars, the 23-year-old opted to turn against her boyfriend and supply vital evidence to investigators. But it is a decision fraught with danger.