Trouble is brewing in Paradise. Tess Titan, former Marine Patrol Officer, is waist deep in pigmy rattlesnakes, scorpion fish, stinkhorns, and lilies. All are deadly tools being used by a hit man to try and kill Tess and her family over a secret worth billions that will fund the resurgence of a crime family.Tess thought she could hide from her past, but living in Paradise is becoming far from peaceful. Her husband is having a sexual identity crisis, while her social high-stepping mother has Tess biting her tongue and wishing for amnesia. Her best friend makes a Stepford Wife look scruffy, and her godmother is acting like Don Quixote in drag. You add a corpse on a pirate ship, the theft of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a Contessa sending a letter AFTER she's dead, a revelation that saves lives, and you've got a Tess Titan Mystery.