Bay is plunged into to the world of international intrigue when old school friend, Jordan von Brandt, returns to South Carolina to bury her mother. Widowed socialite Leslie Herrington is found dead in her Rio hotel room. Natural causes, the authorities say. Murder insists her estranged daughter. Over all hang the frightening shadows of Bay’s own past and the looming threat of a killer hurricane. From the beaches of Hilton Head to the fabled islands of the Caribbean...the storm is rising!