JoEllen Heath

Forty-one years ago JoEllen left the metropolitan city of San Francisco to visit her family, who had moved to the island of Hawaii, known to outsiders as the Big Island.  She inteded to stay only for two weeks, but became so enchanted by it that she has made it her home...never returning to the life she had known.

In her trilogy of novels JoEllen Heath recaptures the earlier years of people and places in this untouched paradise.

"Claws of the Dragon" delves deeper into the four powerful stones unearthed from with an ancient Hawaiian burial cave in the first novel of the trilogy, "Tiger Eyes".  In Claws, four people are bound together by their conflicting motives and are drawn into a web of danger and treachery.  Each is willing to take whatever steps may be necessary to obtain the treasure for him or herself.  This second book in the exciting series exposes the heroine, Crystal Ming, to assault by drug dealers, violent  motorcycle gangs and vicious murderss.