Soon after Jack Wilder, private detective, moves to the small lakeside town of Wakeegon at the request of his friend Sheriff OConnell, he falls headfirst into the towns worst crime spree in decades.

Jack quickly becomes infatuated with Sara Reynolds Jacobs, daughter of one of the towns most prominent families, when she is involved in a mysterious car accident.

All eyes are on Luke Jacobs, Saras husband, who is secretly planning to build a tourist complex on the Reynolds estate, in order to solve the towns, and his, financial problems.

When the young detectives extraordinary senses draw him further into the investigation, he wakes up in a stream alongside the slime-covered body of an out-of-town environmentalist.

Jack soon realizes his life, along with Saras, is in jeopardy.