In this whimsical novel, a star crossed weekend sailor is shipwrecked on a wayward South Seas island. Stranded there by the trickery of a Hawaiian kahuna and accompanied only by his sagacious parrot, Julian Crosby eventually meets the island's only other human resident, a soft-spoken siren who seems at once out of place yet somehow thoroughly natural to her environment.
As Julian is initiated by the longtime foundling, in the ways of this Shangri-La, the female solitary alludes time and again to a past which seems to suggest a solution to one of the century's inimitable mysteries - the disappearance of 1930's flying ace, Amelia Earhart. Is it somehow possible that the missing aviatrix is still alive?
One man, one woman: alone in paradise. But in the denouement of a ferocious storm, the castaway finds he ultimately must confront his courage and ingenuity, even in Paradise.
National Writer's Association Novel Competition Finalist
