"Vacations mean different things to different people," says Charlie Parker. "There's the planning, the packing, the anticipation. Then, there's the late arrival, the sunburn, the fuzzy pictures. In my case, add a romance with a good-looking pilot and fourteen stitches in the back of my skull."

Charlie's Hawaiian vacation doesn't turn out quite like she planned. Her first day there, she takes a helicopter ride. She and pilot, Drake Langston, see a dead body lying on the rugged rocks below. When Drake's friend, Mack, is arrested for the murder, Charlie agrees to help find the real killer.

She discovers that everything in the tourist business is not what it seems. And that Mack might have had a very good reason to kill.