When the interior designer for a major hotel chain, Mia Kensington is sent to a small South Pacific Island to solve the troubled completion of one of its newest hotels, she's prepared to meet the usual problems. But the mysterious suicide of a hotel guest is compounded by the fact that the presiding doctor attends to one of the few remaining leper colonies in the world. Only the patients in this colony situated on the southern end of what had been a Japanese Submarine base during the Second World War are being treated like inmates of a concentration camp. Then Craig Stevens, the handsome pilot and co-owner of Interisland Air Services whose company services the island experiences a near fatal crash adding to the suspicions that both he and Mia are being are being targeted for death. Taking her life in her hands a mother living in the camp approaches them, pleading to take her child to safety but inadvertently disclosing vital and damning information. Then, with the island in the direct path of an oncoming typhoon, Mia pieces together a plot both hideously sinister and for her certain death.