Jessie Garrison jumps at the offer to escape the mistakes and heartaches of her past and start a new life as a schoolteacher on a remote tropical island in the Indian Ocean. The island of Toolowa sits a thousand miles off the western coast of Australia, on the Tropic of Capricorn, and is home to many unique plants and animals. It also harbors a deadly secret-one that could change the face of World War II and bring Jessie's past back to haunt her.