Approaching his office one Sunday morning, environmental lawyer and investigator Rick Ryder is greeted by the strobing lights of emergency and police vehicles - and the body of a naked stripper. The police quickly tag him for the young woman's murder. Ryder, trying to find out for himself what's happening to his life, soon discovers suspicious links between illegal tree-cutting on National Forest land and a tawdry nightclub. Battling his own alcoholism and powerful political forces, his investigations have to go into overtime, both to root out the true source of corruption ... and clear...

When Rick Ryder comes across a body at the bottom of a 30-foot waterfall in the Blue Ridge mountains, he has no idea the death will put his work, as well as his life and friendships, in jeopardy. On the same property, police discover a large patch of high potency marijuana, and soon 70-year-old Queenie Weaver is charged with murder and manufacturing a controlled substance. Rick races the clock to prove her innocence before she loses the land that has been in her family for generations. More lives are threatened as Rick uncovers evidence that the death and the marijuana plot are part of a...