Breezy black criminal attorney Tara Delacruz gets unpopular clients exonerated while her rival, the white-bread mayor and secret immortal, Cord Smith, wants them off his streets. Somewhere along their craggy coast, a fiend buries his victims at low tide at neck level. When the tide rises, they don't drown. Their town is spooked. Cord knows someone has found an evil use of immortality and believes the lawyer may have run across him. When he's forced to speak with her, he falls for the woman he censures. Bound to a secret conspiracy, he can't share everything, yet he warns her not to accept this twisted case.