Chase The Darkness

Recently divorced, Clarissa Wellsly resides in Isle of St. Isabel, an oceanfront gated community in suburban Charleston, South Carolina. Her father, Captain Winston Price Chandworth, a retired naval aviator, has been imprisoned for the past year on a trumped-up DEA charge of drug trafficking. With her father now a convicted felon stripped of his dignity, Clarissaas energy is directed toward winning his freedom. And even though Chandworthas attorney has filed an appeal, Clarissaas friendaher best friend in factasuggests the power of the media to focus on her fatheras plight. Enter Adam Wescoat, an investigative reporter for The Ledger, a Columbia, South Carolina, newspaper, and Clarissaas high school friend.