Luanne has headed south into the flat lake, snake, and gator country of central Florida with her scuba gear and canoe, to help her boss, macho Det. Amado, who has been forced to ask for help. His beloved old aunt is mysteriously dead and strange things are disappearing into the murky watery gator-mating ground behind the old lady's house. And blowing east from the Gulf of Mexico is a hurricane that threatens another kind of violence. Will Luanne catch the human killers and get back to her beloved swamp before it's too late?