After falling in with an old school friend he's not seen for thirty years, Nick Robinson's down at heel life enjoys a fantastic transformation. A job to die for leads to love and a new life. A bright future seems assured. But then a shocking betrayal has catastrophic consequences. Overnight, Robinson's life becomes a hallucinagenic runaway roller coaster ride that plunges him headlong towards insanity. He escapes to the Undine Resort on the island of Tuscarora, a tropical paradise that hides a dark and terrible secret purpose, to recuperate and put his shattered life in some semblance of order. There he meets and falls for the hypnotically beautiful Kharmina, and finds that nothing is what it seems...