A man goes missing whilst fishing at Greenbrier Bridge. At the exclusive Marsco College, the lodge house is broken into and days later an old foe meets a violent end.Charlie Finch is hoping for a quiet start in his new job as acting lieutenant in seemingly peaceful Greenbrier County. Things don't quite go to plan and soon he finds himself at odds with his irascible Chief of Police.Investigations into these apparently unconnected events slowly converge on Marsco College, where powerful people have secrets they'd rather not be revealed.