When not refereeing chess tournaments, Samuel Povich is content to run his bookstore specializing in Ancient Egypt. But a phone call out of the blue changes his life forever. He agrees to referee a world-class chess tournament on a strange Caribbean island, fully expecting to do his job and walk away with a snortful of money. But after falling in love with the organizer's beautiful and willful stepdaughter, Samuel is inexorably drawn into 'the plan'. Will he become someone's sacrificial pawn in a deadly game of murder and revenge, or find a way to avoid checkmate? A gripping take on the Ancient Egyptian myth of Isis and Osiris, A Softness in the Eyes will pull you into the shadows of a world where nothing is black and white.