Stumbling across the dead body of a client while searching for a missing river guide, Sheriff Martha Ettinger, assisted by private detective Sean Stranahan, follow clues that point to an animal rights group and their pagan master.

Sheriff Martha Ettinger reunites with erstwhile lover and private detective Sean Stranahan to investigate the suspicious death of a woman whose demise may be linked to a local fly-fishing club and priceless collectibles believed to have once belonged to literary master Ernest Hemingway.