Here is a mystery, suspense, or thriller ebook that we recently found by sleuthing (as it were) through new or recently reissued titles from independent publishers during January 2014 priced $4.99 or less …
The Island Snatchers by Janice Kay Johnson was first published in hardcover by Forge Books in August 1997. This is (we believe) its first appearance as an ebook.
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The Island Snatchers by Janice Kay Johnson
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Janice Kay Johnson
Publication Date: January 10, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 01/11/14 12:30 PM ET)
Having come to Honolulu in the mid 1800s as the wife of a missionary, Anne Cartwright makes herself valued as a midwife and nurse by Hawaiians and foreigners alike after she is widowed. Taught harsh lessons by her father and husband, she vows never to put her life in any man's keeping again. In this time of turmoil, when British, French and Americans compete for the future of the strategically important islands while pledging dubious loyalty to King Kamehameha III, Anne comes to care for the natives and fears for the future of this kingdom.
Still reeling from his father's suicide, Dr. Matthew Cabe has sailed to Honolulu with the intention of reclaiming his father's sugar plantation from Edward Landre, the partner who employed deceit to become its sole owner. Consumed with his own share of guilt, Matthew has no interest in the treacherous political climate. Yet he finds that the former partner is now a government minister with dangerous ambitions that may make him untouchable.
When a smallpox epidemic comes ashore, Matthew cannot help joining the battle against the dread disease that threatens to decimate the unvaccinated natives. Soon, he has a more compelling reason yet to stay — he is the principal suspect in the murder of Edward Landre, and is freed from shackles and bars only because his medical expertise is so necessary.
Allied by their professions, he and Anne Cartwright hunt a murderer even as they deliver babies in primitive conditions, befriend a daughter of Hawaiian nobility who harbors her own secrets, nurse the sick and dying, and perform surgeries possible only with recent advances in medical knowledge. And they fall in love, despite Anne's terror of marital relations and Matthew's inability to imagine a future amid the intrigues and treacheries shaping this still primitive kingdom so far from his native Boston.
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