She was as lovely as a dark-hued orchid... Exotic as the jungle … Nude as a flame... She was his friend’s wife, it did not matter. He had a girl back home, it did not matter. Nothing mattered, once he saw her. Coles came to the Islands to help his friend and to get a new job, to enable him to marry the girl he was engaged to. He did not intend to betray his friend and his girl, too, to entangle himself in a web of passion and death. He didn’t intend to. But he had not seen Lani.