Escaping the city and its violence ex-cop Jeff J. W. Jackson found solace in fishing cooking and simplyenjoying life on Martha s Vineyard -- and nothing he figures will ever entice him to leave. However suddenly there s a very real possibility that his lady love Zee will be departing the idyllic island forever. And when a young student commits suicide and a girlfriend-abusing thug starts spewing vicious threats J. W. seriously considers a temporary escape from paradise. But it s a failed trio of attempts on his own life that ultimately propels him off-island -- and onto the trail of a stalker that s leading Jackson to the perilous peaks of the Colorado Rockies where he quickly learns that thorns and all there s no place quite like his Vineyard home.