It's Tamsyn Poldhu's first day as a police constable in her home town of Penzance in Cornwall. She already knows that life can be cruel, but she has no idea how tough it's going to be. Detective Inspector Rob Rego has just transferred to the coastal southwest from Greater Manchester Police, and he gets seasick just looking at a boat. When a body washes up on a remote Cornish beach, Tamsyn's involvement in the case goes deeper than she could ever have imagined.
