As the Petrel sails closer toward the "house of the Sun",Cheney Duvall and Dr. Walker Barid,her colleague from St. Francis Hospital in San Francisco,arrive in Hawaii to try to convince Shiloh irons to return with them.Though Shiloh belives the Winslows might be his long-lost family,Cheney has discovered some disturbing facts about Bain Winslow and has traveled all this way to warn Shiloh.The Winslows have refused to acknowledge any kinship to him and belive he is nothing more than a con man bent on stealin the family fortunes.
When Cheney pays a call on the Winslows whit Dr.Baird to thank them for a generous donation to the hospital where she works,her curiousity and ire and raised by Denise Winslow's haughty demeanor.She and Walker set out to help Shiloh unravel the mysteries that seemingly surround the Winslow's determination to drive him from the island.With the fish compass and tapestry stolen--the only tangible clues to Shiloh's origins--will he ever learn his true idenity?
Caught between the river of lava creeping toward the beach an the waters teaming with frenzied sharks and piosonous Portuguese man-of-war,Cheney must make the most diffacult decision of her life.Will Shiloh return in time to rescue them from the firery destruction spewing from Haleakela? |
