When Friday Harbor gumshoe Scotia MacKinnon opts for seven days in May at the Hotel dei Fiori on Santa Maria Island, it's for the promise of Italian cuisine, therapeutic massage, pranayama, tranquility and wildflowers. The reality at the old Franciscan convent is far different. As accidents and bodies pile up and relationships unravel, Scotia uncovers the true agenda of the Santa Maria Time Share Safaris. Trapped on the island, Scotia is pulled into a life and death struggle between the hotel owners, their poker-playing neighbor LeRoy Housman and a South American assassin named Serafina.