Seriously wounded in the line of duty, OSI officer Kip McTeer is sent home to Savannah to recuperate. Not long after he arrives, information on a case he's been working on pulls him from his recovery bed on a clandestine boat ride to Tybee Island. He is shocked to discover the house he has been sent to check out belongs to none other than his former high school sweetheart, Anna Hanley. And the house is fully engaged in fire.Before he has time to recover from his wounds, Kip is forced back into the world of intrigue and espionage. Anna's sister has been murdered. An arsonist is on the loose, but it's more, much more. Amid the gracious living of the coastal South, Kip is inexorably drawn into a sinister plot that threatens to take both his and Anna's lives. Forced to relive a past he wanted to forget, he is spurred on by the memories. The case has become personal.