Matthew Palmer with a deadly lung disease return's home to inform his Grandpa, his only living relative of his impending death. While there he learns his first love Sadie, has a daughter who also has a lung disease. Earlier in his travels he had visited an Island in the Indian Ocean and encountered a strange healing potion. Matthew knew he had no choice but to return to the Island and get the creatures to share their secret to help Sadie's daughter. Will he have time to get the potion and return before his own death? Time will tell in this heart wrenching novel.
