Life is so good for top-notch defence lawyer Arthur Beauchamp that, in a moment of career restlessness, he decides to switch sides and prosecute a man charged with murder. Beauchamp is confident he can prove Randolph Skyler is guilty. Confident, but surprisingly blind to how precarious the evidence is. It's a case Beauchamp will never forget, not even years later, when he's happily retired to a bucolic life on Garibaldi Island in the glorious Salish Sea. As Beauchamp is about to learn, the older you get, the greater the chance is that the past will return to bite you.