THE PRODIGAL SON HAD RETURNED Dale Metcalf had spent fifteen years running from his past. Then a string of suspicious deaths linked to a fierce epidemic forced the outbreak specialist to return to his boyhood home on Lobster Island with Dr. Tansy Whitmore—the one woman he'd never stopped loving. But the sinister incidents that coincided with their arrival on the windswept coastal island—a mysterious plane crash, a raging fire and a near-fatal attack—proved that someone desperately wanted them dead…. And now, in a race against time, could the two stormy lovers combat danger—and desire—before it was too late?