Chloe Veloce stands outside her burning condominium, and now all she has is the nightgown on her back. The rest is in the fire. Two weeks ago, she packed a bag and moved to the Island of Kauai to start a new life. Now she has nothing.Still fragile from the life she left behind, paradise preys on her in this new world that was supposed to heal her. Deprived of her ID, and her bank cards, she is suddenly barefoot and homeless and seduced by a man with global ambitions to control rain.Until now, only God could flood all the crops in California. Only God could erase a standing army in a deluge of biblical proportions. Now man can too. A perfect crime is committed when no one realizes that one sadistic man manufactured the death and destruction of a storm. A man who wants to return home a king. A man who can make it rain. And it's for sale.But Chloe is the key he needs to get to the secrets held by Hayato, the strange old hermit who can mysteriously fly among the ospreys.Between her missteps and the men who tear at her emotions for their own gain, Chloe is kidnapped and betrayed. Will she make the right choice? Is the fate of the ultimate weapon in her hands? Or is it just an illusion paraded over her by heroes and madmen? And what of this magic she seems to possess?