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Authors: Linda Lee Chaikin
Jewel of the Pacific
© 2013 by
LINDA LEE CHAIKIN
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Scripture taken from The Holy Bible: New King James Version. Copyright © 1982, 1992 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Edited by Jeanette Littleton
Interior design: Ragont Design
Cover design: Studio Gearbox
Cover image: Woman on front / Bigstockphoto
Man on front / Getty images
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chaikin, L. L., 1943-
Jewel of the Pacific / Linda Lee Chaikin.
pages cm – (The dawn of Hawaii series; book 3)
ISBN 978-0-8024-3751-8
1. Life change events—Fiction. 2. Blindness—Fiction. 3. Hawaii—History—19
th
century—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3553.H2427J49 2013
813’.54—dc23
2012046387
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Historical Characters and Terms
Part 2: The Black Cliffs of Molokai
11. Speak, Lord, in the Stillness
12. The Case of the Devious Woman
13. Let Your Heart Take Courage
17. Invitation to Iolani Palace
HISTORICAL CHARACTERS AND TERMS
Many of the characters who appear in
Jewel of the Pacific
are not fictional. Woven into the story of the Derrington and Easton families are real people who played an important role in the history of nineteenth-century Hawaii. The following lists include several of the more important characters and terms from Hawaii’s colorful past. (Not listed are historical locations, buildings, and objects.)
CHARACTERS
Claus Spreckels
—the sugar king from California.
Hiram Bingham
—one of the first missionaries to Hawaii who helped create the Hawaiian alphabet, which was used to translate the Bible into Hawaiian.
John L. Stevens
—American Foreign Minister (political) to Hawaii.
Kamehameha I Monarchy
—Kamehameha the Great conquered the other independent island kingdoms around him to form one kingdom, which he named after his island, Hawaii.
King David Kalakaua
—who ruled over Hawaii for seventeen years until his death in 1891; the second elected monarch and the first to visit the United States.
Lorrin Thurston
—member of the Hawaiian league and a grandson of pioneer missionary Asa Thurston.
Priest Damian
—a Belgian priest who was ordained in Honolulu and assigned at his own request to the leper colony on Molokai in 1873, where he died in 1889 after contracting the disease.
Queen Emma Kaleleonalani
—who in the 1870s had a cousin who was a leper at Molokai.
Queen Liliuokalani
—the last reigning monarch of the kingdom of Hawaii, who was deposed in 1893; a musician and songwriter, she wrote Hawaii’s most famous song, “Aloha Oe.”
Walter Murray Gibson
—King Kalakaua’s controversial prime minister, who was eventually run out of Hawaii and died on his way to San Francisco.
TERMS:
alii
—chief, princely
aloha
—love, hello, good-bye
auwe
—an expression of lament; alas!
haole
—foreigner, especially white person; Caucasian
hapa-haole
—person of mixed race; Hawaiian-Caucasian
hoolaulei
—festive celebration
kahu
—caregiver or nurse
kahuna
—sorcerer or priest of the ancient native religion
kokua
—helper; a person who would live with and assist a leper
lanai
—porch, terrace, veranda
luna
—overseer
makua
—parent or any relative of one’s parents
muumuu
—gown, Mother Hubbard gown
Pake
—Chinese
wahine
—woman
The Devil-Lion Prowls
T
he flames sputtered and fumed as lashing rain struck the front of the Great House of Hanalei Kona coffee plantation on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Rafe Easton held his fiancée, Eden Derrington, one arm around her shoulders and the other about her waist. Rafe had just pulled Eden from the burning inferno and now they stood on the soggy lawn, drenched to the skin in warm rain. But now a safe distance from the flames.
Eden shivered. It had all happened so fast. First her own uncle, Townsend Derrington, had abducted Eden from Honolulu, where she lived in her grandfather’s house.
Next Townsend Derrington had commanded his son, Zachary, to take him and his hostage on a journey aboard Zachary’s boat,
Lilly of the Stars.
When Zach had refused, Townsend had struck his son, and left him tied in the hold. Then, at gunpoint, he had commandeered a boat, the
Princess Kaiulani
, from the cousin of an extended family member, and had brought Eden to the Big Island, here to Hanalei.
If that hadn’t been dastardly enough, he’d left her incapacitated in the home built by his own stepson, Rafe, the home she would soon oversee as Rafe’s wife. Then he had set the house on fire … to destroy his stepson’s future, fortune … and life.
Fortunately, Rafe, in pursuit, had found Zachary aboard the
Lilly of the Stars.
He had untied Zachary and left him to rest in the boat while Rafe rushed to Eden’s rescue, barely reaching her before the room where she was tied completely blazed into an inferno.
The downpour continued its heavenly blessing, keeping the blaze from spreading from the front of the house to the rest of the lanai. The acrid smell of smoke clung in the night air, filled with hissing and sizzling of burning wood.
Rafe glanced at Eden and her gaze answered him with the same steady love he possessed for her.
As he held Eden a little tighter, trying to steady her shaking body, Rafe’s thoughts about Townsend kindled a fury that burned as intensely as the fire. His heart yearned for revenge.
If I could get my hands on him—
But did not God spare Eden for you? Was not His rain quenching the flames? Then be still!