Former thief, Cat Chambers, returns home and finds herself in the middle of a kidnapping when the daughter of one of the most prominent citizens goes missing.
When modern-day pirates hijack a yacht and steal a laptop containing information that could take down the governor, Cat Chambers jumps into action and finds much more than she expected.
When the Deputy Governor asks Cat to accompany her to visit an island owned by an old friend of Cat's, Dylan Sawyer, the pair become embroiled in a plot to take over Dylan's pot business and, instead, manufacture Yaba.
There's an attack on an old competitors life when a an annual surf competition takes place on the Reef. Cat investigates the attack and what it has to do with Carter Eastland.
Cat is betrayed by Petra and tricked into assisting Doug O'Casey and two (2) other prisoners into breaking them out of their prison cells which makes her a fugitive once again.