Terri McLane is a young researcher for a New York publishing house, but secretly she is the firm's best-selling novelist under the pseudonym Darryl F. Raymond. Not even her boss Rodmere Fulton, knows that she is the creator of macho-hero Jason Flynn. Intrigued by a newspaper story about the body of an American soldier, who disappeared many years ago in Vietnam, Terri flies to the Caribbean. After all, it could be the basis for another best-selling novel.