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?