Paradise Obscura

Lucia Parrado's brother vanished six months ago somewhere in the Indian Ocean, leaving behind only a garbled satellite phone message and coordinates that point to nothing on any chart. Draining her savings for a secondhand catamaran and a skeptical local skipper, she sails into open water and discovers an island that shouldn't exist—home to a secretive commune that has already claimed Matteo as its own. But the deeper Lucia digs into the community's pristine façade, the more she realizes that paradise has teeth, and leaving may not be an option.