When a woman's body washes ashore near Deception Pass Bridge on Whidbey Island, it looks like suicide. Brad Haraldsen, her long-ago lover, isn't so sure.Decades after journalist Bella Morelli disappears from Brad's life, she is back and in trouble. She travels 3,000 miles to seek refuge and a new life on Whidbey Island, only to find conflict with powerful interests as she prepares to write the most important story of her life.That conflict continues today.