Running like a stream from the Ness of Brodgar to the wild shores of Georgian Bay to the swamps of shady finance, beliefs twist the lives of McConnell's characters. One Chief Financial Officer is dead, and his replacement vanishes. Drug dealers and sexual harassers are being assaulted. There's a wedding, a great lakes freighter broods on the face of the waters, and Mac MacArthur tests his own ontogeny. Even the German Shepherds have their ideas about what you know and what you think you know.