After twenty-five years of working in the shadowy world of espionage Keith Landry is on his way home. Driving along the highway, humming a few bars of ''Homeward Bound'', the twenty-five years'' service he has given the US government are fast becoming a distant memory.

He is safe. He is alone. And life has never felt sweeter as the signs for hometown Spencerville come into view.

Keith Landry has promised himself no more violence, no more death. But a chance meeting with childhood sweetheart Annie Baxter makes it a promise he cannot keep.

As passion is rekindled between them, jealousy flares. For Annie is married to a violent and sadistic bully: the man who runs Spencerville, Sheriff Baxter. And he won''t tolerate any man near his wife. Especially Keith Landry.