Brie Beaumont has taken a leave from the Minneapolis Police Department. Suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome after her partner is killed, she has gone to Maine - a place that holds fond memories from her childhood. A place to heal. She ships out on the 'Maine Wind' for an early season cruise with Captain John DuLac and eight others. Caught in a gale, they anchor off remote and windswept Granite Island. When someone aboard is murdered, Brie must singlehandedly stage an investigation that moves from the ship to a small fishing village on the island. Plagued by flashbacks and a growing attraction to Captain DuLac, she works to unravel a mystery that will place her directly in the path of a psychopathic killer--Cover.