This is world of shifting boundaries, caught between sun and shadow, and between land and sea, between then and now. Cassandra Harris is called home to deal with a problem that is not hers, but everybodys. Here on her ancestral home on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay, Cassie is immersed in the wonderful watery world of the skipjack sailors, the oystermen, the crabbersall the watermen whose mythic world draws her into mystery and murder. The fictional tale of Littleneck is the scene of recollected events, of myth of the past come to life in this contemporary novel of love, betrayal, and revenge.