Maylea Kanaka is a young woman of exquisite beauty and siren-like allure to men. Leaving the island of Oahu in Hawaii, she appears in Lubbock, Texas, one day in April and turns a family upside down. Dillon West, an accountant, and his wife Nettie, a nutritionist, have been married for 15 years. But Maylea has other plans for Dillon. Dillon naively believes those plans are for his happiness. But by June, he is beginning to realize that Maylea’s beauty masks an inner ugliness.

It is an ugliness so hideous that he fears for his own safety, as well as that of his ex-wife and son. When a murder occurs, the obvious suspect is charged. Then it becomes crystal clear that someone must do what Dillon should have done in the first place–unravel Maylea’s past and discover her dark secrets.