Before she agreed, Shawn had already started planning. "There is a beach nearby, let's go. Can you surf? Dive? Forget it. You'd better sunbathe obediently with your fragile body..."

Shawn was a man of action, and he did what he said.

For the next three or four days, he took Gale traveling around the mountains and rivers.

Joe made more than a dozen phone calls a day. "I say, Shawn, can you come back as soon as you find your wife? I can't take care of the company's affairs alone!"

"You are the