His Romantic Weekend In Ruins, Shy Twenty-something Artist Perry Foster Learns That Things Can Always Get Worse When He Returns Home From San Francisco To Find A Dead Body In His Bathtub. A Dead Body In A Very Ugly Sportscoat--and Matching Socks. The Dead Man Is A Stranger To Perry, But That's Not Much Of A Comfort; How Did A Strange Dead Man Get In A Locked Flat At The Isolated Alton Estate In The Wilds Of The Northeast Kingdom Of Vermont? Perry Turns To Help From Tall, Dark And Hostile Former Navy Seal Nick Reno--but Is Reno All That He Seems? Josh Lanyon.