Pepper's expectations of lazy fishing on a quiet river are soon disrupted.Insurance Investigator Pepper Bibeau takes a 7-day fishing trip with Homicide Detective Rick Janus, her best friend and the father of her 14-year-old son. This gives her a week to consider his marriage proposal.Pepper's boss approved her vacation, tacking on a routine insurance investigation that should take "two hours, three at the most." Pepper agrees to both arrangements. A week is long enough to consider the marriage proposal. And her boss already granted her leave to close out her son's custody hearing in Honolulu next month.When someone shoves her into the flood-swollen river, she finds herself fighting for her life.