A local campaigner is found dead in the garden of an infamous house. Among the clues Detective Inspector Joe Hogarth finds a clear attempt to throw the police off the scent. Someone is determined to keep them from the truth behind a vicious murder, but who?

Penny Wharton was murdered in the wild garden of a derelict house - the house that had become a symbol of her campaign to save the victims of Storm Archie. Wharton had spent her life whipping up a storm to bring justice. But in the end she was the one struck down.
The motive for Miss Wharton’s murder seems straightforward, but there are many players in this game, and everyone has something at stake.

Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Sue Palmer has a serious problem with local gangster Alex Galvan Galvan wants a pound of Palmer’s flesh, and he will stop at nothing to get it.

Fighting against a rising tide of pressure, greed, and corruption, Detectives Palmer and Hogarth are in danger of going under… and losing everything they hold dear.

Their integrity. Their careers. Their lives.

A Storm is coming. And it may claim everything in its wake.