Office pariah Leah bags the dream job, reviewing an island retreat in the Pacific. There might be pirates. And storms. And one very helpful stranger.
Usually Leah is called to the boss's office on a disciplinary - to explain missing data, broken electrical equipment, or unrelated fires in the building. But today her boss seems keen for her energy to be directed elsewhere - namely, to an isolated archipelago in the Pacific.
Leah's only concern is how to maintain her OCD rituals, developed to maintain control of her supposed pyromania, while she is out there.
In the meantime, fireman Jack Boatman is getting used to life on Fiji. Since his mother's death, he's moved all the way from Canada to help out his father, a geology professor - also a former colleague of Leah's father, Brian. Jack's already had a run-in with the town cougar, travel agent Morgan DeVilbiss, and isn't keen to get into any more romantic entanglements.
After a chance meeting with Leah on a visit to London, however, Jack's curiosity is peaked by her mention of Neptune's Island. And when his father mentions that a colleague's daughter might be visiting the same islands near Fiji, which are supposedly cursed, he starts to wonder what the travel company is up to - by sending a novice resort reviewer to an isolated destination alone.