This is a romantic adventure involving a young couple surviving a shipwreck on the shores of equatorial West Africa. The initial setting is a meeting of friends in a local bar in Capetown, South Africa. There, they decide to sail up the west coast to try out a new sail boat. The men exclude all women from the trip, so one stows away aboard the boat. All goes well until the boat is wrecked in a storm near the equator. All three men and their stowaway survive the ordeal. Two men are rescued right away by local authorities and return to Capetown. The remaining man, Ben, spends weeks learning survival skills. The stowaway, Ann, also makes it to shore, but is unaware of the men"s survival. She too, learns how to survive in the savage jungle. The two finally meet, build a tree house, and secretly fall in love. They return to Capetown and get married. They then return to the jungle, where they spend their honeymoon. Another honeymoon couple, James and Maya, sail their new boat up the coast and meet Ben and Ann in their jungle paradise. After a run-in with pirates on the return trip, they finally return to the U.S. Midwest where they make their new homes.