"All the fast-paced action and danger readers have come to expect." --Kirkus Reviews Ike Schwartz, Sheriff of Picketsville, Virginia, and his fianc e Ruth Dennis, the President of a local university, seek asylum from a trying year of academic and local politics on Scone Island, four miles off the coast of Maine. Its lack of electricity, reliable water supply, and phone service guarantee their seclusion and peace. The suspicious...