A hot time in the Florida Keys. When a boat explodes in the Scorpion Cay Marina with one of Sam Decker's oldest friends on board, Police Chief Monica Sinclair knows that there is no way she will be able to keep the former DEA agent turned Private Investigator out of the case. When evidence turns up incriminating the man in a drug case, Sam Decker smells a rat. Then when the widow arrives on the island and more dead bodies start turning up, Decker knows that someone is turning up the heat! Suddenly Decker has two jobs: finding his friend's killer and clearing his name, before Decker becomes a victim himself...