Iris Green, a free-lance writer and animal-lover, leads a comfortable life in her southern California beach house. Handyman Harry McLeod’s life is not so comfortable. When they meet in the lagoon clearing where he has set up a hidden camp, it is the beginning of a course of events, including a nebulous love affair, a bar fight, and murder, that threaten them and those within Iris’s circle of eccentric friends. Who committed the murder and why? The answers expose secrets Iris’s friends have been harboring for years.