Retired Marine Corps Sgt Maj. Kincaid, turned Associate Professor of English literature, moonlights as a writer of mystery novels. He is approached by a woman fan who misconstrues his literary talent for bona fide detecting skills. She retains him to locate her son with whom she has lost contact for twenty years. Kincaid reluctantly accepts and finds himself in a quagmire of intrigue, greed, and murder.
The drama is set in and around Port Angeles, near Washington State’s magnificent Olympic Mountains.