Tyler Mackenzie returns to rural Vermont in a quest to find Woody Foster's long lost sweetheart who disappeared from a small Mexican village twenty-five years earlier. At the same time that Woody is diagnosed with cancer, a mysterious package is mailed to him from another Vermont town, which begins the ensuing search for Suzanne, who has suddenly vanished again. With the help of his girlfriend Sarah Scupper, who also happens to be the bartender at Woody's West Jordan Inn, Tyler is soon hot on the trail of Suzanne's very unconventional past, via Chicago, Mexico, and finally the tiny Caribbean island of Nevis, where, caught in the eye of Hurricane Hugo, the mystery unravels itself at last.