It is 2008, and a rising power is flexing its global muscle. Reaching across oceans, it captures the lost and purchases the weak to bribe the gullible. Yet their latest victims are on the run; fleeing Spain, trafficker and trafficked make common cause in a stolen car driven by a passing stranger. Pursued ever eastward, they rediscover a lost innocence, and old alliances are rekindled by the sunlit shores of the Dalmatian Coast.
But as loss becomes love, their intended role is revealed as part of a sinister plan for domination in undersea warfare. Setting aside their past, together they must face down the power that listens under the waves beyond Villa Proleta.