What happens when a spy, a retired thief, and a person in the witness relocation program end up in the same coastal Maine town? Nothing... until a man using an alias washes up on shore and threatens to tear the idyllic nature of Port Essex apart at the seams. Baker & Wolfe are pulled in when Peter Angel claims that his brother was deathly afraid of the water and would not have voluntarily been out on a boat, leading to his accidental drowning. Who was the dead man really? When Baylee is driven off a cliff at the same exact spot that Clay's father, mother, and grandmother died in a horrific car accident, the past becomes entwined with the present in a twisted web of lies. And then Niles Harrington, a name from the past, is set free. Is it possible that the dead man, Clay's parents' accident, and Niles Harrington are all connected? Clay Wolfe, Baylee Baker, the gang, and Port Essex become embroiled in their hottest and deadliest mystery yet. Will the spies, informants, and thieves be exposed in time before the killers can finish the job that they have begun?