by Wesley E. Hall
Publication date: September 11, 2001
A romance-adventure/trade paperback.
Retail price: $18.95
[Also in eBook format for only $6.00.]
Size: 6X9.
Length: 330 pages.
ISBN: 0-595-19904-6.
On-demand publishing (iUniverse).
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Synopsis:
Jason Rhodes is convinced that he is the favorite of a lesser god. Finally free of his responsibilities to the wartime Navy, he asks his muse for two things: Fame as a writer (He wisely does not ask his god for the Nobel Prize in Literature) and the hand of Stephanie Howorth, a young Mississippi girl so endowed with attributes, both physical and mental, Aphrodite is rumored to have wept at the sight of her. Jason's first ambition suffers major setbacks early on because he and Stephanie and three other service personnel become marooned on an island in the Fijis. It is just after WWII, when young aristocratic women occasionally gave the time of day to commoners like Jason (if they are handsome enough). Jason is not only handsome he is practically the only man around, and so his second driving ambition makes great progress up until a Fiji chieftain decides to give him and the other castaways a ride to the nearest airport. By this time their baby has been born and is learning Fijian. In the States Jason's fortunes switch quickly. He loses Stephanie because of mule headedness on his part, but his books, written late at night in an attic, begin to sell like hotcakes. What follows is a three-generations search by Jason that takes the writer all over the world, from the Fijis to the U. S. to Provo Island in the Grand Caymens to Hawaiii and, finally, back to Fiji.
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Recent Release!
Shortly after WWII, Jason Rhodes, Stephanie Howorth, and three other veterans of the Pacific War were returning to the States when the PBY in which they were flying crashed near an island in the Yasawas, at the northwest edge of the Fijis. This is the story of young first love cursed by ambition and pride, and the roles that chance and fate often play in our lives.
Jason, from the West Coast, and Stephanie, from the Deep South, never dreamed their cultural differences would drive them apart, because they were castaways on a remote island in the Pacific. What were the chances they would ever see the States again?
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Set in the Yasawas, a three-generation romance-tragedy about star-crossed lovers.
There is no frigate like a book, to take you lands away.
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