Is there life after drowning in a sea of deception? Elan lives large but real lifeand his one loveelude him. If he hits bottom, can the Green Fairy save him?
Weeks after Victoria and Elan disappear on a romantic elopement, officers find a small plane at the bottom of Bitterroot Lakewith Victoria in it and no sign of Elan except remnants of the plane's avionics in a burned-out campfire.
Ray Walker, the youngest deputy sheriff in his town's history, cannot let this case become his only failureespecially after Victoria's sister pays a call.
Meanwhile, the Green Fairy is escorting a new man-about-town to all the best placesand keeping him alive.