The violent fall of liberty came just in time. Ethan Caine had been found guilty by a general court-martial. With blood and chaos flowing in equal amounts, he stole an advanced prototype patrol boat and escaped. Caine's rage festered in the years that he survived in the lawless, forsaken wasteland that was the Louisiana coast, his home... until the day when a sedate but bewildered young woman showed up on his dock, carrying ambiguous information...