The Burning Island
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- £6.99
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
When her work on a high-profile missing child case exposes her fragile secret to the world, Charlie Cates is forced to flee the spotlight.
On Hawai’i’s Big Island, Charlie can escape the past whilst gazing out at breath-taking sunsets and sparkling sea.
But in spite of its beauty the island is harbouring a dark secret of its own, and people who will do anything to protect it.
The more enchanted Charlie becomes by the island's mysteries, the bigger the theat she poses to its tranquillity. And the closer Charlie gets to uncovering the truth, the less likely it seems that she will ever leave the island alive...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Thriller Award finalist Young's haunted third thriller featuring Charlotte "Charlie" Cates (after 2017's The Shimmering Road) finds the freelance journalist reeling from the media frenzy following her partner's unwelcome disclosure that clues from dreams are what helped her rescue a missing child the most recent of several. Charlie can't wait to ditch the news vans outside their home in Tucson, Ariz., for a working Hawaiian getaway. But once in the Big Island's remote Kalo Valley, she discovers that she's only swapped one firestorm for another when she learns that the subject her sly, publicity conscious editor has suggested she profile, Dr. Victor Nakagawa, is not only a prominent volcanologist and triathlete but also the father of 16-year-old Lise, who disappeared six weeks earlier. And though most members of the family seem convinced the popular but rebellious teen simply ran away, Charlie's alarming dreams scream otherwise. What she doesn't see coming until it may be too late is the danger to herself. Brace for a hair-raising cliff dive into waters dark and deep.