Distant Echoes

Distant Echoes is set in Hawaii near a military base which is testing secret missiles. Kaia is a native Hawaiian who is also a marine biologist. Her current project is to train dolphins to interact with sounds. When the security at the base is breached and Kaia loses a friend, handsome naval officer Jesse comes to Kaia and asks for help with patrolling the waters using her dolphins. The mystery of unraveling the person behind the security breach becomes only one of the many story lines. We find out that Jesse feels responsible for his first wife's death and has never gotten over it and that Kaia has never gotten over the desertion of her mother when she was a child. The involvement of Kaia's brother in something sinister, the attempted kidnapping of Jesse's niece, and the strange new woman who comes to town all add to the suspense of this story. This was a good mystery, and I enjoyed the many plot lines that were continually unraveled.