Through a series of sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious events, Hannah, Jack and Olive wind up battling South African terrorists, renegade Marine turncoats, and neo-Nazi skinheads in a struggle to stop a gang of wanton killers and save the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. A hauntingly plausible story of two women who reach across generations to examine the power of the powerless. An intriguing mystery powered by parallel love stories and the desire of both women to love without fear. When a Cambodian refugee couple are shot and killed in the Seabell apartment, the khmer community whispers that their deaths were caused by bad karma. Bridget O'Hern believes the couples deaths are rooted in the horrors of the Khmer rouge years.
Bridge is assigned as a liaison between the community and the police investigating the homicides.