When the pool terrace of his Spanish villa collapses in a violent Mediterranean storm, retired British engineer David Darnell expects a battle with his insurance company. What he finds buried in the rubble is rather more troubling — and the local police seem strangely uninterested in finding out why.
Pushed by a journalist who refuses to let it go, and increasingly convinced that the town itself — its builders, its officials, its carefully maintained silences — knows exactly what was buried beneath his pool, David finds himself drawn into a thirty-year-old conspiracy that someone is still willing to kill to protect.
In the sun-drenched streets and whitewashed villas of Spain's Costa Blanca, not everything is as warm as the weather. And some secrets, once unearthed, cannot be reburied.