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.