Nicholas Hawthorne has been in love with Emma Sorensen since he was a young teenager. Now 22, he is a graduate engineer looking for a job as a boat designer. He's been raised by his father and all in all has had a good, if somewhat sheltered, life. Soon after Nicholas sees Emma's husband, Julius, in a posh restaurant with an attractive young woman, Emma is found dead, floating in the bay and the police don't think her death was an accident.
—garykmcd