T. J. O'Sullivan is a newly minted private investigator at a small Los Angeles detective agency. When her boss sends her to Honolulu on what seems a routine missing person case, T. J. is thrilled to escape her steady diet of infidelity cases and eager to apply her investigative abilities to something a bit more challenging. However, as soon as she arrives in Hawaii, the case turns out to be anything but routine. T. J. finds herself at the center of a real mare's nest of revenge, betrayal, and trouble involving money and murder. With desperate criminals, the Honolulu police, and even her own client all after her, T. J. has to find a way to save her own professional life and her own skin by solving the convoluted case.