Recently married musicians Judi and Zav Baines are assigned from Marbella to the Maldives. During the voyage from Gibraltar, they are joined by five strangers, seemingly with intertwined pasts long ago. Almost daily it gradually becomes clear that each of the five also knew Judi and Zav in their youth. But how? There are strange forces at work. Cosmic coincidences start to crowd in, defying interpretation. Events in their previous adventures start to make some kind of sense. The final battle starts with a series of lethal terrorist attacks on the Maldives Spa Hotel, their new home, uniting the group in a life-or-death fight for survival. An all-out assault forces reformed Macedonian brigand Kolper to call upon their last hope of salvation: the Call of the Shepherd, the Call of the Cosmos. But will the call be heard?