Johnny Donal, P.I., a retired cop, now with a successful investigations agency, should be enjoying life in the SC Lowcountry. He isn't. That he has a stellar reputation as an investigator; that he has a source of independent wealth; that he can pick and choose cases should, if anything, add to his good life. None of it does. Instead, Donal is a troubled man. His lover has left him and, worse, he's batting zero with his attempts to get her back. He also has a new client with a strange attitude about the circumstances surrounding her missing husband and Donal isn't sure that he can trust the woman. Then a friend is murdered and that case intertwines with Donal's missing husband case. Despite a double dealing client, negative involvement with influential locals, and political obstacles cluttering his investigation, the question becomes can the P.I., who has problems of his own to resolve, uncover the identity of the killer or killers and solve the crimes?