Existence had become stagnant in the small Midwest town where Melissa had grown up living a sheltered life, and losing her disloyal boyfriend to another woman, the only person left to have an emotional impact on her since the loss of her parents in a fatal plane crash several years earlier. Little did she know that her decision to visit a high school friend in Central Florida would change all of that, disrupting the delicate comfort zone to which she had become accustomed. Melissa had never expected to find herself catapulted into an entirely new world of adventure, intrigue, peril, the rain forests of Costa Rica, and the man who would take her there.