When her position with the government is eliminated, Charity Styles is faced with an uncertain future. The only part of her previous life that she truly enjoyed was sailing her classic sloop. The cruising lifestyle is wonderful and helps keep her mind centered, as she sails from one anchorage to another, looking for her true calling.

But there are hidden dangers: marauding pirates, psychopaths, and drug smugglers run rampant throughout the Caribbean, leaving pain and suffering in their wake..

In the Bahamas, someone close to Charity falls victim to the brutality, leaving her alone and despondent with nobody to turn to. She wants revenge, but when other victims appear, she must change course, adjust her sails, and work to get them out of a very perilous situation.

Old friends arrive to help. But will their small entourage be sufficient? And will they be able to mobilize quickly enough?

When an evil spirit murders a two-bit hustler preacher on French St. Martin, a conspiracy obsessed Vodou priest calls Jerry Snyder and DJ Martin to investigate.

When they arrive, the hustler preacher is, indeed, dead, and his underage girlfriend kidnapped, but to a seasoned investigator like Jerry, a murderous spirit seems... far-fetched. For starters, the preacher swindled a laundry list of locals, and no matter how vengeful a ghost may become, without a physical body, it's impossible to hold a knife.

But, as Jerry and DJ methodically work the case, neither man can shake the feeling that something wicked is chasing them through the dark alleys and secret hounfours of St. Martin. Whatever it is, they must find a way to shake it off and get the job done, because there's still a kidnapped girl to be saved.

Jesse McDermitt has returned to the Florida Keys. But things in the islands are different now. The locals are worried, but nobody can explain why. A sense of foreboding hangs in the humid July air.

One of the locals, an investment banker, is waiting tables at the Rusty Anchor Bar and Grill. He seems a shell of the man he used to be—a hollow man whose fortune and wife are gone. He's tight-lipped about how he came to be a guest in Rufus's little shack behind the bar.

Something very sinister is going on—Jesse smells it. He's usually very good at rooting out the source of a problem, but is stumped this time.

Until another tight-lipped hollow man shows up.

Jesse McDermitt discovers an environmental nightmare of deception and greed taking place in Central America. A cartel is branching into smuggling things other than drugs. And they're doing it quite effectively.

The Honduran rain forests and its inhabitants are at peril. The cartel needs hidden places to grow coca, used in the manufacture of cocaine. The exotic and endangered hardwood trees are cut and sold on the black market, along with any creature found dwelling deep in the humid jungle.

Environmental activists in the area who try to intercede are swiftly dealt with in the manner the cartel deals with anyone who stands between them and the almighty dollar—with a sharp machete.

Having so many moving parts and numerous smuggling routes, can Jesse and the crew of Ambrosia, on a dive vacation in the Bay Islands of Honduras, be able to make a difference? Or will the beautiful reef surrounding the island of Utila be Ambrosia's grave?