A brief love affair produces a child. A child that later brings tremendous grief to her mother. The mother seeks out the murderer of her only child and in doing so travels from Kauai over to the Big Island. There the women of the Pono family get involved by trying to help the mother find her daughter's killer.

In this 5th book of the Kohala Coast Mystery/Thriller series, Teri Pono is sent to Maui by the spirit of Queen Ka'ahumanu to intervene on behalf of a long-dead Maui Maiden. Teri's efforts to put the Maiden to rest are opposed by others who see the mummified Maiden as a source of great wealth. In this story, Teri comes closer to death than ever before. As if she doesn't have enough to worry about, Teri's mother, Haunani, seems to be descending even further into the black hole of Alzheimer's disease. A thrilling addition to this series.

This collection of twelve ghost stories leads readers into a world of obake, supernatural creatures, fireballs, choking ghosts at the University of Hawai'i dormitories the "faceless woman" of the Waialae Drive-in Theater, the "green lady" of Wahiawa, the mo'o wahine or supernatural lizard woman, inugami or dog spirit possession, mysterious occurrences in Kaimuki and Kipapa and other "chicken skin" encounters in Hawai'i. Invisible Ink calls this book true in spirit to the many ghostly traditions of the Islands.

Hawaii is without parallel as a crossroads where languages of East and West have met and interacted. The varieties of English (including neo-pidgin) heard in the Islands today attest to this linguistic and cultural encounter. "Da kine talk" is the Island term for the most popular of the colorful dialectal forms--speech that captures the flavor of Hawaii's multiracial community and reflects the successes (and failures) of immigrants from both East and West in learning to communicate in English.