Lincoln Heath has done something unforgiveable, and after some time away he's returned to the northern Michigan peninsula where the event occurred. Now he lives near his grandmother and helps with her struggle to keep her financially-troubled cherry orchard, as more and more of the cherry-growers are losing their land to upscale vintners and condo builders. The peninsula has changed from when Lincoln last lived there: all digital devices have been deactivated, Old Bull Nestor is using his bulldozer to remove the blacktop from all the roads, smugglers haunt the bay, but one thing remains the same: there are many who still remember and despise Lincoln.