In this latest installment of the Leslie Elliott mystery series, the tranquility of Anibonie Island (just off of Florida's Gulf Coast) is shattered by a carefully orchestrated and violent kidnapping plot. Well-heeled brothers Victor and Hugo Clerk are the targets of the criminals; a note demanding $200 million in ransom informs the police that the men will be buried alive until the money is paid. The kidnappers, who include an ex-soldier once convicted of murdering his commanding officer in Afghanistan, destroy the island's communication network and disable the bridge linking Anibonie to the mainland.

Unable to bring in reinforcements, a small and unlikely team of intrepid investigators find themselves in a race against time to rescue the kidnapped brothers from a horrible fate. Among them are public relations expert Leslie Elliott, who recently moved to the island to start a new career as a mystery writer, and her friend, Wes Avery, a newspaper reporter from the Midwest who gave up his big-city job and now writes for the island's paper. They are assisted by Alex Pendry a young, inexperienced sheriff's deputy; Ray Santiago, a fireman' and the fearless Gene Miller, whose day job is to reduce the island's increasingly destructive iguana population.

In this page-turning thriller, readers will be carried along, fully engaged as the twists and turns of the plot produce unexpected revelations.