chapter one : the island chapter two : a new friend chapter three : the games chapter four : a change of heart chapter five : the caves chapter six : the amphitheater chapter seven : the sunset cruise chapter eight : hortense gray chapter nine : runaway chapter ten : jimsen weed chapter eleven : christy ranch chapter twelve : a visitor chapter thirteen : the man at punta arena chapter fourteen : escape at laguna harbor chapter fifteen : danger in central valley chapter sixteen : surprise on the beach chapter seventeen : the body beneath the pier chapter eighteen : a dark night chapter nineteen : love beneath the oak chapter twenty : trouble in the woods chapter twenty-one : tripped up chapter twenty-two : limuw chapter twenty-three : a final shock chapter one from grays domain about the author chapter one : the island a morning fog was just beginning to thin in the sticky , ocean breeze .