Tiff Baker is utterly taken with her new husband Dan’s choice of honeymoon destination: the beautiful, chilly retreat of Nightjar Island. The deer are tame, the oysters plentiful and the keepers of the island discreet.
But settling into what should be newlywed bliss, she is troubled by changes in Dan’s behaviour. And as the changes shift from subtle to alarming, she begins to question whether her surging dread is really only the product of over-active anxiety, or whether Dan has something in mind for her entirely different from the vision of a new life she thought they shared.