Springtime in Victoria isn’t as sweet as Coast Salish cop Silas Seaweed finds a local street girl dying of an overdose in an abandoned house. As Silas starts his investigation, he begins to suspect that all is not what it appears to be. With a mysterious haunting by a ten-foot-tall bear, a burglary in a hypnotherapist’s office and the shady workings of small-time crooks, Silas finds himself in a criminal ring full of deception, murder and blackmail