Circle of Bones

Maggie Riley sailed a thousand miles to ask a man she once loved one question.

Two years ago, in the smoke of the Lima embassy bombing, the former Marine watched him walk away, leaving her with burn scars and a friend she couldn't carry out fast enough. Call it crazy, call it closure. She wants one hour with the Ivy League SOB.

But three miles off Guadeloupe, she pulls a half-drowned stranger out of the sea wearing nothing but a gold coin on a chain and a tattoo that reads Carpe Diem. He gives her a fake name and a funny story—just not a