For Nick Potterton, the once high-flying London journalist who has moved to the Cumbrian countryside, Davie Peters' death should be just another story to cover. But the longer he investigates, the more disturbing questions he has to answer. Was the death of one of England's most talented young athletes during a traditional Lake District fell race as accidental as it seemed? Or is somebody hiding the full story of what happened at the rock-face high in the mountains that is known as the Bad Step?