Billie Houston Billie Houston is former high school English teacher with a B.A. in history and an M.A. in psychology from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Since 1990 she and her husband, Herb, have written as a team under the pen name Barri Bryan. They have published essays, articles, short stories, poetry, and novels. Visit her website .
Chapter one begins thirty-two years later.
Travis Nightingale and his wife Dawn are on the verge of divorce. A marriage that initially seemed to be made in heaven has, through the years, fallen apart. Their teenage children persuade them to take a brief holiday on Moon Island with the hope that Dawn and Travis will reconcile. Once they have their parents isolated on the island, they take the only boat and leave. Travis and Dawn are marooned there.