Based on the New York Times bestseller list for the low to mid six figures, The Des Moines, Ia.-based novelist's second tome centers on a 32-year-old English teacher who tutors a 16-year-old boy at his family's Maldives summer home. En route to join his family, their seaplane crash-lands, stranding the two on an uninhabited island where they develop a strong relationship that's tested years later when they're rescued.