Once Upon An Island: The Curse of OEdipus

At the end of the Second World War, Jason Rhodes, a young Navy Chief Petty Officer, and Jennifer Howorth, an Army nurse, were returning to the States from the South Pacific when the plane in which they were traveling went down near a remote island in northwest Fiji. With them were three other veterans of the Pacific War. Thus begins a three-generation romance/tragicomedy. Rhodes, whose one and only ambition in life is to write a blockbuster novel about his experiences aboard a wooden subchaser during the war, cannot, finally, resist the beauty and charm of Lieutenant Howorth, the beautiful (and only) daughter of a wealthy U. S. Senator from Mississippi. Some god or muse, he decides, has smiled upon him; and even though this Aphrodite of the South is engaged to a wealthy Kentuckian, she will, in time, return his love.