Patricia Snelling

City detective DS Tony Martin suspects his boss DSS Rob Dean of tampering with evidence connected to a guard's murder at the Port of Auckland and confronts him. Soon after the Port killing, a neighbour discovers Tony lying in a pool of blood in his backyard. His wife Summer refuses to accept the police report that her husband's attacker was a passing opportunist and carries out her own investigations. Summer believes Dean is involved in major organised crime and had possibly arranged her husband's assassination.
Her past experience as a crime reporter and police media advisor, plus her determination to solve her husband's death, brings Summer in close union with Tony's friend and colleague, DS Mick Randall. But is Mick her friend or foe? The deepening relationship between them is about to make or break Summer. Can a Bed and Breakfast in St Heliers Bay save the day?