It feels like paradise, but deadly secrets lay under the waves from the coastline of Kauai. Occasionally Kaia Oana thinks her dolphins are even more humane than humans. Like a mammal cleverness researcher, Kaia has learned something or two about the goodness and intelligence of dolphins-and as a natural scientist near weapons designers, she’s learned a thing or two about human beings as well. Whenever a visitor catamaran explodes from the coastline from the Hawaiian isle of Kauai, Kaia and her educated about Distant Echoes dolphin, Nani, rush to assist the search and rescue work. After hours of looking, an worn out Kaia is pulled from your water by Lieutenant Commander Jesse Matthews of the U.S. Navy. Lieutenant Matthews is definitely accustomed to pursuing protocol-and a civilian-dolphin save is not normal operating procedure. However when his colleagues ignore the likelihood that missile research had something to do with the sunken catamaran, Jesse recruits Kaia and her dolphin to help him carry out his own investigation. The olive-skinned mermaid had impressed him-in even more methods than one. As their rogue investigation takes them in to the waters encircling the sunken boat-and their personal chemistry needs them into other uncharted territory-Kaia and Jesse find that they have grown to be targets themselves. Someone doesn’t need them snooping around that wreckage . somebody desperate plenty of to kill.