Witch Island: A Huck Rogers Adventure (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798247025443)

She vanished between one step and the next.

Huck Rogers and his girlfriend Diona are supposed to be on vacation-a few quiet days on a remote Philippine island before flying back to their life on Mindoro. But when Diona walks down a jungle path one evening and never comes back, Huck's world collapses into a single, desperate mission: find her.

The local police are useless. The island keeps its secrets. And the only lead points to a wellness retreat in the hills called Gaia's Garden-a place where women in white drift through manicured gardens with empty eyes, and the woman they call Mother Margaret has powerful friends in very high places.

What Huck uncovers is worse than he imagined. The retreat is a trap, the "healing" is chemical, and the clients who visit the compound pay for things that can never be spoken of. Women go in. Not all of them come out. And the people protecting this operation include names that make intelligence agencies look the other way.

Outgunned and running out of time, Huck calls in the only people he trusts: Dewey, his oldest friend; Rona, Dewey's fierce Filipina girlfriend; and a pair of former Scout Rangers with their own reasons for wanting to see the compound burn. Together, they'll go up against professional killers, an assassin's poison, and a fortress built to keep its secrets buried.

But getting Diona out is only half the battle. Some prisons don't have walls.

Witch Island is the third book in the Huck Rogers Adventure Series-a dark, propulsive thriller set in the Philippine archipelago, where the jungle hides predators of every kind and love is the only thing worth killing for.