""I'm sorry, Mr. Long, but I can't wait to come see you at your office on Monday," Maria said. "There's 100 million dollars at stake, and I may be dead by then."" Jeremy Long, a nonbeliever and an attorney, suddenly finds a beautiful young Mexican woman, wearing only her bikini, climbing the swim ladder of his sailboat near Catalina Island. She brings with her a tearful claim that people may be trying to kill her, people on the yacht anchored about a hundred yards away. It had to do with a 100-million-dollar real estate deal gone wrong. His first reaction is to throw her overboard, but she is so beautiful and so scared Jeremy is hooked. He's got to know what it's all about.