During the hottest Jamaican summer on record, Clark Mason is fighting for survival when he's offered a Job by DALCO, a Bauxite mining corporation. They plan to open a new seam on Morgan's bluff, a local beauty spot. Clark experiences a backlash to the scheme when a Voodoo warning is left on his doorstep at the camp. Having met the love of his life - the sultry redhead Case Robins - Clark briefly escapes his troubles wooing her amid the tropical white sand paradise. But the impassioned couple become embroiled with a local Mambo and her curse on the toxic blood lakes. Profit, occult and science clash when the fault seam on Morgan's Bluff suddenly slips. Now the powers of love, belief and circumstance are tested to the full as Mike Jakarta and his Texan girlfriend, Anne, join forces with Clark and Case. With the new seam wide open, disaster looms as DALCO's Bauxite crews are struck by a whirlwind of misfortune.