When does a secret become a crime?Jonathan Miller and his wife are invited to his best friend's lavish 40th birthday celebrations. Four days later, Jonathan is dead, apparently asphyxiated during a solitary sex act gone wrong. A tragic case of misadventure. DS Robin Butler is accompanied by his new partner DC Freya West to give a death notice to the widow. He can't understand why West behaves like a nervous rookie. He doesn't know that the victim was West's lover, and until that moment she had no idea he was dead. West is devastated and confused. Jonathan's wife hints that he was troubled, and West chooses to withhold her connection to him. If it came out it would end her career. Yet she cannot accept any version of events other than murder. His wife, she is sure, is lying. As the pair investigate, Butler's past and present also collide. When the truth is finally revealed, there is no mistaking who the guilty parties are. But can...

A storm may destroy everything in its path...DS Robin Butler has started putting his life back together. These days, he sleeps better. Unlike his partner DC Freya West, who is plagued by nightmares since the events of nine months ago. When early one morning Robin receives a call to attend a crime scene, it is not as a policeman but as best friend to Dr Finn Mason. A renowned meteorologist, Finn has locked himself in a van with a dead body and refuses to leave. Once he eventually does, it is as a suspected murderer.Butler immediately seeks to find evidence that Finn is innocent of the crime. When Freya reveals the extent of her own struggles, the two work together in the search for answers. In the process, Freya has to decide if she will allow the past to consume her. But the truth may prove more painful than either could imagine. Do both detectives stand to lose more than they can bear?A tense and atmospheric police procedural...