The King of Someplace Hot

In a land without law how far do you go to protect the innocent? The year is 1995. On the remote Caribbean island of St. Stephie a seaplane delivers a tall man clad in a pale linen suit. Paul Summers is fleeing a lifetime of lost battles. Released from his marriage and career he's living out his Jimmy Buffett-inspired dream of escaping to saint somewhere southeast of disorder and hence his arrival at the Hotel Caribe Billfish Club a resort as exotic and elegant as it's location on the distant edge of the islands.While napping on the sands of a turquoise cove Summers is woken by the lilting English of Lark Johnson an Oxford-educated marine biologist of African descent who asks Why did they hurt you? referring to scars Summers bears. That night the resort sponsors a grand fiesta. There Paul is introduced to Nikki Saunders former supermodel now owner-operator of Tiki Charters a diving and big-game fishing operation and her sidekick Yolanda Yoyo Magana. And on a subsequent moonlit night as Summers and Niki initiate their romance they discover the shark-mauled body of Ophelia Johnson 14 sister to Lark. When Summers discovers that sharks were the least of the girl's problems murders begin to bloom like jasmine. What develops is a Force 5 hurricane of political intrigue corruption and violent confrontation. And for Summers to find his one particular harbor he must survive the storm.