An explosive novel inspired by one of America’s most famous, mysterious deaths, that of Stanford University’s founder Jane Stanford in Waikiki.   1905 As the mother of a university and a woman with an iron will, Jane Stanford has made her share of enemies. After a scare at her mansion in San Francisco and on the advice of her doctor, she boards the SS Korea and flees to Honolulu and the fashionable new Moana hotel. But as fate would have it, the island is not as safe as it seems.   2005 Zoe Finch is a bestselling author who desperately needs a jump start on her next novel, when she makes a last minute decision to attend a writers conference in Waikiki. Not wanting to call attention to herself, she signs up under an assumed name. As a storm brews offshore, she begins having nightmares that feel all too real. Terrified, she enlists the help of renowned mystery writer Dylan Winters, a man who she unexpectedly begins to fall for, and w