A young passenger. A shipwreck. A volcanic island crawling with danger. When Carey Cranford sails from England to join his parents in Australia, he expects adventure. What he gets is a nightmare. A fall from the rigging leaves him unconscious, and when he wakes, the Chusan has run aground on a remote volcanic island in the Indian Ocean. Now Carey, the ship's doctor, and a tough old sailor named Bob Bostock must survive together, marooned on a shore where a sinister beachcomber lurks, storms howl, and something far worse prowls the tropical night. Fenn delivers Victorian adventure at its most visceral: tight character dynamics, mounting dread, and a setting that feels both beautiful and lethal. The stakes are simple but savage: survive or perish. It's a story that pul
