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 rebuild 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 Chinook Air Force Base, Wy discovers a young archaeological assistant, gruesomely murdered. 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 victim--the deadly secrets of love and honor....