Dakota Smith, a powerful executive in a high-profile Madison Avenue advertising agency, is sent to India on assignment. Out of her element and impatient to return home, she offends a group of religious zealots and soon finds herself at their mercy in a remote region. Once the agency learns of her disappearance, they send her nemesis, Ned Turner, to her rescue. But who will rescue who in this wild and exhilarating magic carpet ride that takes the reader from the canyons of Manhattan to the wilds of Asia.