All Simona wants is a few weeks in the sun along the Long Island coastline. But vacation fun quickly turns to foul play when her neighbor and friend, New York advertising mogul Bud Warren, is found floating in the inlet behind his beach house. Now, as the summer heat wave intensifies and brush fires break out across the Hamptons, Simona finds herself caught up in her most terrifying murder case yet--one that includes corporate corruption, madness, and forbidden family secrets.