She has to avenge a champion.

Surfing star Makoa Simmons washes up after tragically drowning on Maui, and Detective Lei Texeira plunges into a high-profile case whose dark and tangled motives reach deep into the elite world of professional surfing on the North Shore of Oahu.

He'll kill to come out on top.

The darkest of motives drive a murderer with multiple axes to grind, and Lei must follow her instincts into new territory even as her husband, Michael Stevens, struggles with heartbreak of another kind.