Malory Fleet' s son was killed by bikers and now she' s worried about his missing girlfriend, Amanda. But that case was closed shut by the police a year ago and Frank Cain, the private investigator she' s hired, is reluctant to take it on. On the darkened streets of uptown Saint John, no one wants to talk, even fewer have anything to say, and the police have cast a blanket of fog over everything. For Frank Cain, as unmoored as a lost ship in the harbour, in unravelling this case he risks unravelling himself.