Recuperating in Cornwall after being injured in a terrorist attack, DCI Ross O'Bryan discovers a dark secret. An unthinkable crime that has been covered up. Tasked with investigating, it soon becomes apparent he has found himself immersed in a world of deception, police corruption and organised crime. O'Bryan has his own dark secrets too. In a place where he has no alliances and is viewed with suspicion, it is only a matter of time before he is found out. For so many years the dramatic and rugged coastline of Cornwall had been the scene to smuggling, deception and murder, now O'Bryan will find out how little has changed.