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Fire and ice, Paul Garrison

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Fire and ice

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Paul Garrison

For more than a decade, the world's oceans have been home to Michael and Sarah Stone - and the only home their eleven-year-old daughter Ronnie has ever known. Doctors and idealists, the Stones have forsaken dry land and a comfortable life to live and work aboard their thirty-eight-foot yacht Veronica - sailing to remote and inaccessible places to offer medical aid to those in need. A gargantuan commercial vessel - a Liquid Natural Gas carrier - appears where it has no business being, radioing a medical distress call that the Stones cannot ignore. Left behind to tend to an ailing islander on a deserted atoll in the middle of nowhere, Michael watches as Sarah and Ronnie set off to answer the ship's call - first with curiosity, then with horror. For as he looks on helplessly, Veronica is hauled onto the deck of the hulking metal behemoth, which then steams away with his wife and daughter aboard