A brief love affair produces a child. A child that later brings tremendous grief to her mother. The mother seeks out the murderer of her only child and in doing

In this 5th book of the Kohala Coast Mystery/Thriller series, Teri Pono is sent to Maui by the spirit of Queen Ka'ahumanu to intervene on behalf of a long-dead

Hawaii is without parallel as a crossroads where languages of East and West have met and interacted. The varieties of English (including neo-pidgin) heard in th