The Nurse on Dark Island — Teresa Holloway

“That's Dark Island,” John told her. “Outwardly it's beautiful. Underneath, I'm afraid, as ugly as cancer.”

Erin was suddenly cold. She shivered in the deepening twilight. She wasn't sure she wanted to hear the secret of Dark Island, curious as she'd been. She didn't think she'd ever felt so lonely in her whole life. Even John, part of this place, this stretch of strand, this infinity of sea, and sky, and space, was alien to the safe world she'd always known. She was afraid. Bottomless, baseless, atavistic fear was panic in her throat.

Why had she let John talk her into coming her? She was a professional nurse, not to be used as bait in some mysterious trap…