THE SUSPECT IN A DOUBLE MURDER HAS AN ALIBI THAT IS OUT OF THIS WORLD.

All is not well at the Wellness Center, an exclusive psychiatric clinic on Florida's mostly placid Tango Key. An orderly and a staff psychiatrist have been brutally murdered — and the female mental patient believed to be responsible has escaped. The missing woman claims she was once kidnapped by a UFO, and when homicide detective Aline Scott takes up the chase, she quickly discovers that she is not alone.

The flying saucer story might not fly, but the suspect's link to a hard-core UFO encounter group and its charismatic leader is for real. So is the mysterious device implanted in the dead psychiatrist's head. Aline knows there's a connection — and so does whoever is stalking her. Soon her search leads her into places she was never meant to know about — and into a close encounter she may not live to tell about....