With the help of a jaded lawyer, an eccentric, aged billionaire makes a female missionary heir to his fortune while his family challenges the inheritance.

After losing their children in a flash flood, and later getting a foster child, a couple's marriage is tested by grief.

When heroin traffickers establish a vast and swift pipeline into Vermont, Joe Gunther's Bureau of Investigations is called in to stem the tide. But with pressure building from politicians and resentment burgeoning in the ranks of rival investigation units, Joe's team is forced to take wild risks: Sammie Martens must go deep undercover as a drug dealer, Lester Spinney must investigate a loved one, and Joe must make some agonizing choices as he works...