Kona Fade Away

When love is kidnapped, a professor will risk everything to bring her home.From the lush paradise of Hawaii, astrophysics professor Dr. Theodore "Tanny" Nichols receives the call that shatters his world: his girlfriend Fiona McCann has vanished during her sabbatical at the Mauna Kea Observatory.Racing against time, Tanny travels to Hilo where he joins forces with Fiona's friend, Herman Haukea, a loyal Hawaiian native with shoulders as broad as his sense of honor. Together they navigate the island's complex underworld, encountering unlikely allies in their desperate search: a no-nonsense detective who plays by the rules, a strip club owner with his own moral code, Fiona's father, Sean and the enigmatic Kai Kanoa'a, protégé to The Kahuna, the Hawaiian spiritual leader.In this fast-moving thriller where paradise hides humanity's darkest impulses, Kona Fade Away weaves an intricate web of deception and danger. In the heart of Hawaii's beauty, unexpected heroes will emerge, and a professor's love will fuel a desperate mission to save the woman who completes his world-before she vanishes without a trace.