Prominent lawyer Charles Hanford is dead. According to the autopsy, it's nothing more than an everyday drowning, a surfing accident. In surfer lingo, he just caught a bad wave. But Kami White, his paralegal, isn't so sure. She's surfed with Charles a dozen times and knows how careful he was. When she talks to the other surfers on the beach that day, and to her cousin Patrick, the captain of the Coast Guard cutter that responded to the drowning, she's even more certain that it was no simple accident.