Black Swan

Sailing back from Maine, Sam Acquillo, his girlfriend, Amanda, and his screwball mutt get blown off course by a dangerous gale. With damaged boat and frayed nerves, they limp to the closest harbor, on Fishers Island, a disassociated scrap of Long Island. A summer preserve for the oldest money in America, it is defended by denizens who safeguard their island's insularity with xenophobic fervor. Sam and Amanda are hardly welcomed with open arms-except the arms of the young and beautiful Anika Fey, daughter of the owner of the Black Swan, the island's only hotel, who's only too eager to fold Sam into her embrace. Sam and Amanda are soon swept up in big-money intrigue, dark conspiracy, brutality, murder, the machinations of high-tech millionaires, and autumn storms. Bad timing and a broken rudder could result in the greatest loss of all for Sam Acquillo-his life.