Mike Bergen is a married man from Barnstaple, where he happily lives with his wife and son. The story opens in Gaffney, where Mike is attending a work-related conference. Gaffney, however, is also the place where a terrible occurrence took the life of his best friend almost thirty years ago. Desperate to lay to rest the past which has been haunting him into his adult life, Mike returns to the place where Geoff Oram – his childhood buddy – was sadly taken from him all those years ago.
