An Island Lost — Wayne Mansfield

David is thankful to survive a plane crash and to make it ashore to an unknown island in the middle of nowhere. His first thought is of water and food, and after struggling through the undergrowth he finds a beautiful stream. He also finds Chip, another man who has been marooned on the island. Chip takes him back to a small village where David discovers there are many other men that have been stranded on the island and who are trying to make the best of their lives there.

But there is a dark secret. “Why are there no women?” he asks. “There was one once,” is the reply, but what has happened to the mysterious Miranda? For David the question is no more than a fleeting thought until he does something that brings him face to face with the irate Miranda, and there is only one thing that will soothe her ire. David's life.