Island Fever

Kim Zabo of Zabo Resorts wants to expand her business to the Caribbean and has chosen Caribe Island to build a spa hotel, but only if the current airport is enlarged to allow aircraft that can accommodate more passengers. But with island sentiment set against a new airport and further island growth, the future of the hotel seems in doubt. Air traffic controller Ford Sullivan is working in the Control Tower at Caribe when a Miami International Airlines jet lands long and skids off the end of the runway. With many of his friends on board the jet, including the parents of Mark Deyer, his new recruit-in-training, Ford helplessly watches the scene unfold before him. The disaster turns the tide of public opinion in favor of a new and safer airport, but Tamara Gregory, a reporter for the only newspaper on Caribe, wonders about the timing of the crash. Could the crash have been intentional? If so, whose interests would benefit most from the potential expansion? The path to find the protagonist takes Ford and Tamara on a journey through three islands, peeling off ever deepening layers of involvement. What they discover shakes the island to its core.