 After an exhausting foreign books tour, Jessica checks in at the Kinkaid Oahu hotel, a penthouse suite, compliments of the owner Matt Kinkaid, who refuses to consider selling the hotel. Meanwhile Matt s brother Jeff is running for senator against Matt s son Danny s boss D.A. Randall  Randy  Thompson. Danny reluctantly works on a dirty Southeast Asian finance investigation involving banker Brett Reynolds -who finances Matt s campaign- and Martin Osborn, to which end financial whiz Joe Yoshanaga just entered the banks service. After his grandmother Rebecca tells Jessica Danny recently had a suspicious diving accident, he has a swim and a masked diver in a motorboat throws shark bait around him- he goes missing. Joe breaks into Reynolds  PC to send his personal files by modem to the abandoned sugar mill, and Jessica finds out that s where Danny s cellular phone is connected; the police finds him there holding a gun standing over family gardener Ben Kamaka s corps; he explains how he survived and thought to be unnoticed. The Kincaid campaign released a video of Randy kissing an Asian girl, but Jessica realizes it s actually his illegitimate Vietnamese daughter. Forensic evidence suggests Matt could be the killer, but there s more apparently insignificant details, which inspire Jessica at Ben s funeral...