Charlie Dawson is a co-owner of a successful design-build firm in his historic hometown of Plymouth, Massachusetts. More important to him is his happy marriage to Juliette, the girl he fell in love with in tenth-grade French class ... the one he married right after college ... the one he planned to have babies with soon-right up until the day she dropped dead.


Wrapping his mind and heart around the facts surrounding her sudden death is made even more difficult by an overbearing father-in-law-a retired Army Colonel and West Point graduate, a local police sergeant who suspects Charlie is at the center of foul play, and a compassionless and demanding client who doesn't give him space or time to grieve.


Fearing he'll forever lose the girl he knew, Charlie sets out on a course to discover the truth.