When young Maggie Thornsby sails off with debonair cult leader Thaddeus Belmont, his deranged ex mistress sets out after them. The desperate chase starts out in the backwater islands of British Columbia, Canada and moves quickly across the globe to Jamaica, Venezuela, Britain, Poland, and France. As Maggie struggles to prove herself in the bustling Parisian fashion community, she is confronted with Thaddeus’s mysterious disappearance, an imminent Nazi invasion, and the constant threat of attack by her murderous rival.