A family, gathering for their matriarch’s 80th birthday in her crumbling, gothic house on a tiny island begin disappearing one by one.

A twentieth wedding anniversary brings three college roommates together for a cruise to Bermuda, where tensions simmer and jealousies flare, leading to a vacation none of them will forget.

A scientist credited with discovering more species than Darwin recounts the first major trips of his career, several expeditions to often remote Pacific islands where he found amazing animals, harsh weather, strange local taboos, and dense jungle.

Begged to prove the innocence of a sweet-natured neighbor who has been accused of murdering an unscrupulous curmudgeon, Jake and Ellie race to identify the killer in the face of a wildfire that cuts off their mainland access.

The perfect hideaway from British authorities in 1808, Pitcairn Island harbored fugitives and, after two decades, devolved into a real-life Lord of the Flies and, to this day, it’s diabolical past still looms over the island’s 48 residents, descendants of the original mutineers.

Fourteen-year-old Tory, who is the niece of famed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, and her three friends are exposed to a rare strain of canine parvovirus that gives them special powers which they use to try to solve a murder.

Fearing that the magic that has touched every other woman in her family will pass her by, Georgia spends her last summer on the island of her youth, falling in love and discovering lessons in mystery surrounding a 300-year old bird.

The misadventures of a geeky 10-year-old on the unusual vacation destiny of Bunny Island, where he searches for his missing uncle only to make a "hare" raising discovery.

Gwen and George seemed like any normal young couple. And they were--until they bought their dream island and began to live on it. For in the cool, clear pool near the house--the one where there had been a tragic drowning so many years before--lay the terrifying secret that had been there for centuries. Suddenly Gwen found herself with stange new powers ... George no longer knew the woman he called his wife, because she was really somebody else.