No one knows better than resort manager Pen Hofstra that the idea of a tropical paradise is an illusion.

So when a young woman named Hannah Sheridan disappears off the island of St. John, she is not surprised that all is not what it seems to be.

Pointing out Hannah's resemblance to the Amina Slave Princess from the 1733 slave revolt on St. John--whose ghost is rumored to haunt the island--the local community quickly latches on to the belief that her spirit is behind the sinking and the disappearance.

Only one person on the island knows the whole truth, and it's not what anyone suspects...