Now, fifteen years later, Thorn still cannot escape that moment, or the darkness he took into his soul that night. Now thirty-nine and emotionally scarred, Thorn still lives in Key Largo, selling hand-tied fish flies. Not even his best friend, Sugarman, knows the truth. Not even Sarah Ryan knows the depths of her lover's pain.
Then suddenly, the nightmare begins again. Thorn's adoptive mother, Kate Truman, a sturdy, outspoken fisherwoman, leads local battles against land development -- the most recent of which results in her rape/murder. Thorn can almost taste the rage as he stalks her killer and waits...for the secrets of his past to explode before his very eyes....