<p>Appleby Island once the magnificent home of a tycoon and planter is a place of history and mystery in the Sacramento delta. Its story includes hints of tragedy fueling rumors that ghosts still walk its derelict orchards. Now Patsy McCone her new lover and a group of invetors are turning the old mansion into an elegant bed and breakfast. </p><p>Summoned by her eccentric younger sister San Francisco’s number one PI Sharon McCone arrives in the teeth of a gale taking a busman’s holiday to investigate mysterious acts of vandalism that are running the project to ruin. <P>But when simple sabotage escalates to savage murder she finds herself trapped on the island with a desperate killer—and flung into a raging storm of treachery violence and sudden death. </p><P>A Blackstone Audio production.