Vacationing senior citizens are mysteriously disappearing from beautiful southern Florida. Snowbirds, newly retired teachers and part-time Sanibel residents, Jenny Crane and Janet Dobson, are determined to find out what evil and most sinister forces are at work in their winter paradise. Soon they find themselves and their beloved canines embroiled in hair raising and murderous events that take them chasing clues and suspects from Sanibel to Naples, Marco Island, Lake Okeechobee and the Florida Keys.