A knock on the door of his dockside home one evening reveals an attractive woman who tells Frank Anderson she may have found a body floating on peaceful Awan Lake. A normally solitary but well-respected contractor and handy-man, Anderson recognizes a lady in distress, but his willing response leads both of them into a fourteen-day search for answers that yield more questions as the lake becomes the centre of a web of conflict, environmental activists, international criminals and murder.