The Gathering Place — Robert Vaughan

On the magical, mystical island of O'ahu, there is a place where ‘dreams' are real and ‘serendipity' is a cosmic law.
Christopher Robert Matthews, restless free spirit and reluctant heir to the Matthews shipping empire, stands on the precipice of becoming merely the next in a long line of duty-bound men that stretches back for generations, marching in lockstep towards a grim, rigidly predetermined future. But in a desperate act of rebellion, and with a little help from a random spin of a magical antique globe, he unknowingly embarks upon his true path of destiny, one that takes him to a strange, exotic land where magic is a fact of life and dreams really do come true…