Author Description

A Celtic Airways jet en route from Labrador to Scotland is disabled by a sudden storm and is forced to land on the remote island of Ardnabegh. The island is mist-shrouded and bog-ridden. The islanders are hostile. The storm has severed communications. To the rest of the world the crew and passengers, thirteen in all, are presumed dead. As the night of the Hallow Fires—October 31--approaches it becomes obvious to the thirteen that they have stumbled onto a secret that may well cost them their lives.Slowly the nature of the secret is revealed, but time is against them. How they fight for survival while working frantically to repair the crippled plane is a tautly told tale. In the face of danger they clash, they quarrel, they cling. They react with fright, and some of them with love. Their final attempt to escape in the face of a fiery fate leads to the kind of nerve-wracking experience that only a fine suspense novelist can create.