1940: In driving rain, in darkness, fabled Lake Tahoe steamship Constance slips beneath the surface of Echo Bay. Present: Shawn Rainey, once-hot Olympic skiing prospect, now living dead end, is thrown both spar and ultimatum?sell the dream of raising Constance to the town he fled, suspect in his popular brother's drowning death, or lose his children to forces he himself unleashed.
A desperate Shawn accepts and runs head-on into his past; into hair-trigger ex-pal, Joe Don McCandless, who stands to gain a fortune from raising Constance. Into Catherine Mulvhill, who vows the ship her father built will sail again over her dead body. Into Arn Tennell, a lawman who banks his grudges until he can burn old debts. Into the citadels of old-lake money and power, secrets as deep and cold as Tahoe itself.
Shawn's return comes under a darkening cloud of murder and deceit, hatred and betrayal, big money and bad blood. To head off the unthinkable and survive, Shawn must confront not only his own violent past, but battle those hell-bent on destroying him and those he loves.
