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The writer Mercer Mann is searching for a gripping story for her next novel. She becomes aware of a drama unfolding right before her eyes involving Bruce Cable, the charming bookseller from Camino Island: a ruthless construction company is trying to seize an abandoned island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last resident of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in their way. She is a descendant of escaped slaves who have lived there for centuries and will never relinquish the island to profit-hungry whites. With Bruce Cable's help, she takes the fight to court. And perhaps the old legend will assist her, which states that any white person who maliciously sets foot on the island is cursed to die. Because soon there will be the first fatalities...