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From Hawaii's Big Island to the wilds of Washington's North Cascades, a novice detective uncovers a hoard of ancient secrets at the heart of a grisly murder.

When a missile plows into a tourist boat, dolphin researcher Kaia Oana is one of the first into the water, risking her own life to help others. When called upon to investigate the incident, Lieutenant Commander Jesse Matthews enlists Kaia and her specially trained dolphins to help--and romantic sparks fly.

When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--to help get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.

It's time to end this. Since joining the agency Bella Walker has had this obsession with solving cases others deemed unsolvable. After solving the toughest case of her career, FBI agent Bella Walker boarded the plane to Honolulu for some needed time off. Instead of a relaxing vacation, Bella is thrust into solving a string of perplexing mysteries. Now, her current assignment, a case known as The Nameless One, is about to put her on a warpath with...

"A glimpse of a quickly melting corpse at the foot of a volcano has amateur sleuth and food enthusiast Valerie Corbin shocked. But how can she investigate a murder, when there's no evidence the victim ever existed?"-- Provided by publisher.

"Paradise is plundered by pirates. Someone is attacking and robbing luxury yachts as they sail the Hawaiian Islands leaving their passengers missing and presumed dead. Sergeant Lei Texeira, with her typical leap first look later style, dives into a case with the Coast Guard to find answers that lie as deep as Davy Jones' locker. He's taking back what was stolen.The Pirate King has a hidden agenda that's bigger than the pillage of luxury yachts, and...

"It's been six months since Maui wedding planner Pali Moon's own hasty wedding to her best friend's brother-in-law, and life's beginning to fray around the edges. She learns having kids probably isn't in the cards for her at the same time her friend and kung fu sifu, Doug Kanekoa, reveals his wife's stepping out on him. Her husband's ultra-classified job sends him to parts unknown and he hints at ending their marriage. Friend Farrah frets over a machete-wielding...

Maui wedding planner Pali Moon is taking a week off from sulky diva brides, Devil-Wears-Prada mothers and hung-over grooms. She heads to Honolulu for a bit of sibling bonding with her brother, Jeff. They plan to spend a week playing tourist in the big city -- seeing it all, doing it all and eating it all. But after sweating Jeff's long-overdue plane and then being guilt-tripped into meeting her 'new family' from her absent father's side, she wonders...

On their honeymoon cruise through the Hawaiian islands, Shauna and Zach Bannister scarcely begin to enjoy themselves before they find that there is a murderous stalker after them. Shauna and Zach Bannister are on a honeymoon cruise through the Hawaiian islands, and eagerly anticipate basking in the warmth of the lush tropics. Instead they receive mysterious threats, and Zach survives two attempts on his life- - staged as freak accidents. Shauna,...

"From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember"-- Now in his sixties, big-wave surfer Joe Sharkey has passed his prime and is losing his 'stoke.' The younger surfers around the breaks on the north shore of Oahu still idolize the Shark, but his sponsors are looking elsewhere. Driving home from a bar after one too many, Joe...