A month after fleeing her wedding and life as she knew it, Claire Demarcus is at a party in Jamaica when a strange girl stumbles onto the scene. Claire finds herself curiously drawn to this stranger and rescues her from the harassment of two local men.

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Worlds apart but both in need of something the other has, they set off on an adventure that eventually takes them to South America. Amidst inbred communities, erupting volcanoes, covert drug plants, and deathly parasites, an unlikely relationship develops between them. So do strange coincidences that cause Claire to suspect their meeting was not an accident.