Kodiak island

Psychotherapist Ethen McLaren returns home to Kodiak Island hoping to recover from the emotionally and financially exhausting events of his past two years in southern California. Instead he finds himself increasingly drawn into a murder when 73 year old former island madam, Mz. Martha Marie, dragoons him into investigating.McLaren?s overcomes his desire to reclusively tend to his own hurts and losses and is increasingly drawn out of his isolation by the attentions of annual summer visitor, Dr. Susan Dyson. Encouraged, Ethan begins nosing around when a second murder occurs and this death cements his personal need to find answers.