Arson, murder, drug contraband, and gangs in paradise, the magical, bioluminescent Red Snapper Bay (La Parguera) in a newly independent, post-colonial, Puerto Rico, A judge, and his family are targeted. Local and federal authorities race to solve several crimes while grappling with issues of jurisdiction, with the intervention of the Country's first president, and first American ambassador. Terrorism is suspected by some, while others point to past cases handled by the judge, but was he the target, or was it others for different motives? Was it revenge, drugs, or deadly gang turf wars?