Along the Mississippi River lies a swampy island, haunted by an old plantation that was abandoned during the 1800s. An asylum was later built onto the house where bizarre experiments were performed. The asylum, too, was abandoned after the 1940s. Even so, weird tales remain of men being made into monkeys. A Russian mail-order bride lands in the Mississippi Delta. Kat has secret reasons for coming to America. But she has no intention of staying with her prospective husband, Joe Leigh, a pilot. Politicians are regularly flown from the Delta to a secret location in Arkansas, a motel where they are bribed, drugged, and soothed with live entertainment. Joe who refuses any involvement in the Arkansas skulduggery is compromised nonetheless, and both he and Kat are endangered. Ahead of them looms that bizarre island and a dark presence of unfathomable evil.