Voodoo #19

Captain Ted signs on five mysterious passengers for a voyage to the Diamond Isles—a mining engineer and oil prospector hiding contraband, a woman with an inexplicable pull toward the mists, and a crew caught between duty and desperation. When a typhoon strikes and the passengers reveal their true nature, the voyage takes a turn into the realm of jungle magic and fate.

When a rumor about Army fliers stranded on a North Atlantic ice-cap reaches the newsroom, reporter Ronda decides to chase the story herself—commandeering pilot Lucky Larson and his private plane to reach them before anyone else can. But battling a brutal Arctic storm, the two journalists find themselves crash-landing on the ice-cap too, where they'll have to survive hostile conditions, wild predators, and a desperate medical crisis to bring their scoop home.

When air-raid warden Colin Buckley discovers a mysterious ring buried in London rubble—one purporting to have belonged to William Shakespeare—he becomes an overnight literary sensation after the artifact grants him genius-level writing ability. But his success attracts the bitter envy of failed author Lynn Estey, who breaks into Buckley's home determined to uncover the secret behind his rival's talent, only to find something far stranger than he bargained for. As the ring's true power reveals itself, both men find themselves caught in forces neither can control or escape.

When escaped convicts led by the ruthless Bloody Roger invade Alani's peaceful island paradise, they seize control and threaten to execute her people one by one—but Alani discovers that the mysterious mysto vines binding her captors have secrets only she knows. As she fights to reclaim her isle and save her friend Ted from a deadly improvised guillotine, the true power of the island itself may be her only weapon against Roger's murderous ambitions. A tale of survival, cunning, and justice set among the Vanishing Isles.