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A thrilling suspense from New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers, available on its own for the first time.

Dr. Antonia Winter has a feeling she’s being stalked. Thinking that someone sees her as a means of derailing the senatorial hopes of her boyfriend, Hank Callahan, Antonia leaves Boston for a secluded wildlife sanctuary off the Cape. What better place to hide from threatening emails and mysterious whispers than a ramshackle cottage on a desolate coastal island? But she has unwittingly placed herself in more danger: she’s been followed. With a powerful hurricane looming, Hank decides to go after Antonia to bring her back. With no power and no way to return to the mainland, either the hurricane will get them—or an obsessed madman will.

Praise for these New York Times
and USA TODAY bestselling author Carla Neggers

“Nobody does romantic suspense
better than Carla Neggers. The Whisper is big,
bold and stunningly effective. Evidence of a writer at
the absolute top of her game still climbing higher.”

—Providence Journal

“Suspense, romance, and the rocky Maine coast—
what more could a reader ask for? The Harbor has it
all…. A story so vivid you can smell the salt air
and feel the mist on your skin.”

—New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen

SHELTER ISLAND

Carla Neggers

CONTENTS

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Dedication

To Sherryl Woods—a wonderful writer and friend

CHAPTER 1

“Antonia…”

Antonia Winter stopped abruptly in the middle of the mostly empty hospital parking garage, certain she’d heard someone whisper her name. She glanced at the parked cars and the exits, but saw no one else. She took a cautious step forward, her dress shoes echoing on the concrete. She’d changed from the more casual clothes she wore in the E.R.—she had a dinner date in Back Bay.

It was tension, she decided. Simple tension had her turning ordinary garage sounds into someone whispering her name.

“Antonia Winter…Dr. Winter…”

She gasped and ran the last five steps to her car, clicking the button on her key that automatically unlocked the door. Her hands shaking, she ripped open the door and threw herself in behind the wheel. She hit the button that locked all four doors.

This couldn’t be happening to her. She had to be imagining it.

This wasn’t the first incident.