To all her friends and acquaintances Leah Falcon is a handsome intelligent woman making a brilliant career as a lawyer. She is on the fast track to success. Her love life with Mike Breton is deeply satisfying.

But even her intimate friends are unaware of a hidden side, a second personality. Whenever she encounters someone using his or her position or power to abuse another person, she is compelled to help the underdog. To achieve this she will use any means available, even murder.

When an assignment from George Athens, one of America’s richest men, takes her on a perilous journey from Maine to the Caribbean, she enters a picturesque world of dark and dangerous secrets. Her search for one of these mysteries endangers her life and she must use all her strength and guile to survive.