It was a miracle that Jane Grant and Lieutenant Danny Mayer should find each other again in an island hospital. But in this world of conflicting loyalities and strained relationships they almost missed discovering their love for each other. It had seemed like an earthly paradise. Only eleven months ago, Olivia Lessing remembered, she had considered her posting to the Garrison Hospital on Miljura Island a piece of good fortune. Now she recognized that the Japanese wartime base taken over by the British and Australians was a small, closed world where daily skirmishes with death heightened the personal conflicts. Or was the disillusion just because her own affair with Commander Hugh Falconer was at a complete standstill!