Where one journey ends, another begins.

As the summer tourist season draws to a close in Windeport, Maine, Vasily Korsokovach is at a personal crossroads: unable to return to the career he’d barely begun in California, he unexpectedly finds himself resisting his best friend’s efforts to have him resume his old position in Windeport. Unsure if he even wants to be an investigator any longer, Vasily manages to nonetheless land himself in the middle of a case when he inadvertently discovers the body of a local developer at the bottom of a ditch not far from the local university.

Sensing a chance to help his friend stretch his investigative muscles, Chief Sean Colbeth makes Vasily an offer he can’t refuse, fully anticipating a typically speedy resolution from his former number two. Except Vasily is anything but recovered from his near-fatal encounter with a vindictive ex-partner; dogged by nightmares that he can’t shake, working the murder lays bare his struggles to put his life back together, leading Vasily to wonder if he’s as much of an asset to Sean as he once was.

Distracted by a new arrival in Windeport and an unforeseen emergency, Vasily soon realizes that his unwillingness to admit he needs help has consequences – not just to the case, but to those he cares the most about.