Private Investigator Nicholas Rampart is asked to assist in a multiple murder case on the small, isolated Fell Island. Arriving on the island, Rampart finds that the island's inhabitants are suspicious of his presence. Even stranger are the murders themselves. Each victim has been found drowned in their beds - far from the shores of the island. The only evidence in the case leads Rampart into the dark heart of Fell Island's mysterious history. But the deeper Rampart digs, the closer he gets to becoming the next victim...