An affair with a married woman leads an ex-convict into a nightmare of passion, greed, and murder. In a chain of events the couple go from bad to worse. After a heated argument with her husband the woman kills him and calls her lover in a panic. When he decides to dispose of the body in the mountains over the side of a logging road, the trip takes a turn for the worst. It is there that they discover the woman's husband had hired a private detective to follow his wife. The plot thickens when the detective turns out to be a man of low character. A suspense packed story that will keep the reader turning page after page.