When charismatic entrepreneur Adam Springbrook turns up dead on a crisp October afternoon, the discovery shatters Police Chief LT Nichols' offseason peace-and-quiet. He finds that Springbrook's plan to transform the fishing village of Laurel, Maine into a jet-set resort has nearly everyone in town on edge. Wherever Nichols turns, suspects emerge. Nothing is as it should be. And that may have dire consequences for Nichols and those closest to him.