title: Winds of Change: Island of Flowers, Untamed
author:  Nora Roberts 
description: Nora Roberts is the number-one New York Timesbestselling author of The Witness, Chasing Fire, and The Search, among other titles. She is also the author of the bestselling futuristic suspense series written under the pen name J. D. Robb. There are more than 400 million copies of her novels in print.
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  **Reflections**
  
  Nora Roberts
  
  **Chapter 1**
  
  The wind had cooled the air. It blew dark clouds across the sky and whistled
  through the leaves, now hinting at fall. Along the roadside the trees appeared
  more yellow than green, and touches of flame and scarlet were beginning to
  show. The day was poised in September, just as summer was turning autumn. The
  late afternoon sunshine squeezed between the clouds, slanting onto the
  roadway.
  
    
  
  The air smelled of rain. Lindsay walked swiftly, knowing the clouds could win
  out at any moment. The breeze lifted and tossed the strands of her silvery
  blond hair, and she pushed at them with annoyance. She would have been wiser
  to have left it neatly pinned at the nape of her neck, she thought.
  
  Had she not been so pressed for time, Lindsay would have enjoyed the walk. She
  would have reveled at the hint of fall and the threatening storm. Now,
  however, she hurried along the roadway wondering what else could go wrong.
  
  In the three years since 