Newly married to his longtime love, Maia, who is more than eight months pregnant, Tres Navarre travels to a small hotel on Rebel Island off the Texas Gulf coast for a honeymoon arranged in part by his wheelchair-using brother, Garrett. The island carries weight for the Navarre brothers: it was the site of childhood vacations spent with their troubled parents, and returning stirs up memories of a pivotal, difficult summer. Their getaway collapses almost immediately when a guest is found shot dead in his room, and the discovery that a U.S. Marshal is among the dead gives Tres unfinished business to settle. As a powerful hurricane bears down on the island, escape becomes impossible, the aging hotel begins to come apart, and the guests are picked off one by one. Trapped with a killer and a rising sea, Tres works to identify the murderer while the storm tears at the building and the past resurfaces. The seventh and final Tres Navarre novel blends a classic locked-setting mystery with the series' Texas atmosphere and family preoccupations, drawing on recurring characters and Tres's own history to bring his story to a close.