Charter pilot Kade Mitchell is on the road to redemption, but a chance encounter with a doomed cargo ship on Lake Michigan sends him into a shadowy world that is all too familiar. Driven on by the memory of a lost love and a tragic mistake, Kade embarks on an elaborate game of chance to right a past that went terribly wrong. But when the game takes a dark turn, Kade must rely only on his piloting skills and brash ambition to take the last trick and survive.
DHS Agent Ely Edwards is on the trail of a riddle. After a series of Great Lakes merchant ships mysteriously sink, Ely comes to believe a frightening new order is reshaping the drug trafficking underworld. But who is the architect of this new order and why is it happening? Each step he takes closer to the truth, Ely is confronted by familiar faces, and a heartbreaking history that time will not heal.
As an echo from the past drifts menacingly into the present, both Kade and Ely realize that old demons do not die easily, and the price to put them down for good may be more than either of them can bear.