Annie Welles is an officer with the Halifax Regional Polices Robbery and Violent Crimes Unit. Recently divorced without custody of her two young sons, Annies career, too, is now stalling under the ambitions of her ruthless colleagues. When two murders occur within forty-eight hours of each other, she takes a risk to follow her intuition, hoping to prove herself.

John Taggart is a Scottish journalist looking to land the scoop that will secure his future. In Halifax to cover the Royal visit and a high-profile RCMP coup in a small coastal town, John has a chance to understand his mothers connection to the province, which she has always kept hidden.

As both become wrapped up in the double homicide, theyre led to the small, picturesque town of Lunenburg and a thirty-year-old murder case with a long-buried secret. The towns dark past holds the answers they both need, but uncovering it could prove more danger than its worth.