When Maggie Mullaley packs away her law books in Chicago and retreats to the tiny tropical island of Bequia in the southern Caribbean, she wants nothing more than solace and solitude.  Instead she is thrust into a high-stakes murder investigation where her skills as a lawyer and a sailor are tested in equal measure. Drawn to help her many new friends on the island—the market vendors, the shopkeepers, the fishermen, the water taxi drivers, the café owners—she grows increasingly disturbed by the methods of a group of international developers bent on replacing their most treasured beach with a giant hotel. The pressures on Maggie intensify when the CEO of Deaver Development is found lying 15 feet below a set of picturesque sailboats swinging on their anchor chains in Admiralty Bay. Why, Maggie wonders, are government officials insisting the Police Chief limit his investigation to local suspects only? Who are the military contractors who have suddenly appeared in the island nation’s capital? And what are they doing following Maggie? With time running out to stop the hotel groundbreaking, and an innocent person, raffish charter boat captain, Jake Phelps, likely to be unfairly convicted of the murder, Maggie risks both her safety and her heart in a desperate bid to alter the outcome.