Lawson Banks is terminally ill with stage IV cancer and wants to spend the last days of his life enjoying Thai cuisine on a windy beach in Paradise. It’s the Big Escape so many dream of, but never have the courage to make. But how does he get the cash? Viatication, also known as death futures: he sells his life insurance benefit to the highest bidder. Now an investor is waiting for him to die. But thanks to the pleasures of Buddha Beach and a healing romance with a stunning but misunderstood Thai woman , he lives longer than expected, much longer. Then someone tries to kill him.