State trooper Liam Campbell knows about loss. His family destroyed and his career in deep freeze, he lives in a leaky fishing trawler in Newenham's Bristol Bay, brooding on how to reboild his life and the love he once had with bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard.
When he's called to aid a boat in distress, Liam arrives to find the bodies of a family of local fishers and their crew. It looks too much like an accident to have actually been one. Meanwhile, near Chinool Air Force Base, Wy discovers a young archaeological assistant, gruesomely murdered. And to top things off, Liam's estranged father is in town. Now, driven by his personal demons, Liam recklessly plumbs the depths of loyalty and betrayal to discover - in the ancient bonds between man and woman, father and son, killer and victime - the deadly secrets of love and honour...