Cameron MacDonald has spent his life guided by duty. As the police chief of a small Massachusetts town that has been home to generations of his Scottish clan, he is bound to the towns residents by blood and honour. When his cousin Jamie arrives at the police station with the body of his wife and the bald confession that hes killed her, Cam immediately places him under arrest. The situation isnt as clear to Cams wife, Allie. While she is devoted to her husband, she finds herself siding against Cam, seduced by the picture James paints of a man so in love with a woman that hed grant all her wishes... even the one that meant taking her life.