A drowned village in the South of France called St Juste holds buried secrets from the Second World War It is swiftly re-emerging as a summer drought empties the reservoir that hides it Tom Chapel comes to St Juste to discover why the daughter of a local man was abducted, attacked and left in a life-threatening coma after the bequest of her father that left her a 28-million dollar fortune His search takes him back to the rule of the Vichy government, smuggled Jews and the discovery that someone is harbouring a cold-blooded killer who, forty years later, is trying to preserve his secret