Stratton Park racecourse, privately owned, faces ruin in the hands of a squabbling family Lee Morris, loosely connected but not related, is slowly sucked into the turmoil, unwillingly on the surface but half-understanding the deep compulsions that influence his decisions One road leads to safety, another to death How do you know when you must choose? How do you know which is which? Lee's choices and their consequences bring deadly results, but the road out of the quicksand is there, if he can find it