Linda Weigand disappears into thin air while on her honeymoon cruise aboard the cruise ship, the Mardi Gras. It is suspected that she has been murdered but no corpse is found. Suspicion immediately falls on her new husband and her boss, who is also her former lover. Lieutenant Mario Morales, the head of security aboard the Mardi Gras and a former LAPD homicide cop, rejects the obvious solution to her disappearance. He persists in his investigation and discovers that her disappearance is related to a drug smuggling operation with terrorist connections run by a Chinese diplomat and aided by a prominent, but greedy trial lawyer, who sacrifices his ethics for millions of dollars. Risking his own life, Morales not only discovers what happened to the missing bride, he uncovers another unsolved murder.