Captain Jack (“Scumbag” to his many friends) Scambaugh's luxury catamaran sets sail for love and adventure in the British Virgin Islands. But on idyllic Virgin Gorda, he and his sixteen passengers are astonished and dismayed to find death and terror lurking among the coconut palms and turquoise blue waters.

Now Detective Inspector Carlton Reese and his brilliant sidekick, Effalyn Penn, must separate Mother Nature's macabre jokes from the horror of deliberate murder.