Outrageous Fortune

A man survives a shipwreck�only to finds his memory wiped clean and a stranger at his bedside claiming to be his wife � The Alice Arden was bound for Scotland until she hit a nasty current and was smashed to bits on the rocky cliffs off the coast of Sussex. A man believed to be a survivor of the shipwreck is found unconscious and taken to the hospital. Lost for almost thirty-six hours, the man lying in a strange bed has no memory of who he is. Yet images haunt him: a light swinging down in the fog, illuminating a string of enormous emeralds and pearls. And now a woman has come for him; Nesta Riddell claims that he�s her husband, Jimmy Riddell. � Caroline Leigh suspects the man in question is her distant cousin, Jim Randal, who was supposed to be on the doomed steamer. With nothing but a torn scrap of paper, she embarks on a quest that takes her to a village in the English countryside. As Caroline searches for answers, the man she�s trying to save struggles to fill the gaps in his memory. But the more he remembers, the greater the danger he and Caroline face�because someone will do anything to retrieve a priceless cache of stolen jewels, someone who has killed before and is prepared to kill again.