Life on a deserted tropical island: one of the oldest and still most powerful romantic dreams. Twice before Gerald Kingsland had dared to turn that dream into reality. On Cocos Island he had lived with his three sons, together learning the skills to survive and the dangers to avoid. On Robinson Crusoe Island he had shared his life with a young Girl Friday. But on Tuin he had to face the fact that Lucy loved the island rather than him. Two very different people, they had to learn to live in an enforced intimacy among near-lethal hardships as their island paradise threatened to turn into an island hell.