A Northern California fishing town. Mysterious activities in the abandoned cannery district late at night. A dead body and a man who can no longer avoid facing his own dark past . When David Jackson returns to Portola Landing to investigate his childhood friend Peter Santangelo's untimely death, he rejects the official verdict of suicide and goes deep into the small town's secrets to discover the truth. But the darkest secret lies in his own past-a past he thought dead and buried-and now it threatens to destroy him.