Trendy dance club, The Underground, is the hottest place in town. It's where, one night, uptight Paige Thorndyke meets a handsome stranger - and allows herself to be seduced.
Twelve hours later she's dead - rushed to hospital with the classic symptoms of advanced scurvy. But why? The dead woman had a healthy lifestyle and diet, rich in vitamin C.
When another young woman shows up dead, displaying all the symptoms of an extreme case of beriberi, a disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin B, physician Terri Barnard determines to find out exactly what's going on.
As she's about to discover, the truth about the women's deaths is more bizarre, more shocking, more terrifying than she could ever have imagined . . .
