Detective Inspector Walter Watts tries not to let personal feelings interfere with the needs of his job. But when a young girl is found murdered on a barren stretch of wasteland in Porthaven, a tourist destination for thousands of visitors, he finds he can't isolate himself from the feelings the girl's death provokes.

Soon his complicated private and public lives are intermingled and he must decide what is more important to him-solving the crime or keeping his job.

He realises there can only be one answer.

The problem is that he doesn't know what it is