Jane Bunker gives up her career as a homicide detective to move to Green Haven, Maine, where she works as a marine insurance investigator and enjoys a more peaceful life, but when a dead body washes up on shore, Jane is pulled into another murder investigation that proves more dangerous than she imagined.

"Jane Bunker thought she'd escaped the pollution, noise, and dead bodies of the big city when she left her job as a Miami homicide detective and moved back to the idyllic town of Green Haven, Maine. But through her work as a marine insurance investigator, it appears she's left behind the bustle of the city, but not the murder. When Jane is called to the remote Acadia Island to assess the damages from a house fire, she also finds a badly burned body...