Merry Folger is ready for a romantic vacation with her fiance Peter when fate - and her police chief father - intervenes. 21-year-old Jay Santorski never should have drowned in the frigid waters off the Nantucket shore. What was the athlete and Harvard scholar doing out alone in the stormy bay? At her father's insistence Merry returns to the island to investigate, only to be confronted by false leads and dead ends. And Police Chief John Folger is behind too many of these roadblocks. For the first time, Merry begins to feel she cannot trust her lifelong role model - her own father...