title: Dangerous Times
author: Hill, Jan
description: Things heat up in the outback when the aborigine, Asum,returns. Brylee begins to learn how interconnected their lives are, and what that means to both her present and her future. Part of the Hawkinsâ€™ family livelihood is destroyed by a pack of marauding dingoes,and Brylee contracts a mysterious illness that even the experts at the Centre for Disease Control are unable to accurately diagnose.This causes Jake to re-evaluate his priorities and to finally decide what he really wants to do with his life.