The Garden of God

by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

"The Garden of God" by H. De Vere Stacpoole is a romance novel published in 1923. This sequel to "The Blue Lagoon" follows the orphaned child of Dick and Emmeline, raised on a remote Pacific island by his grandfather and a roguish sailor. When a young woman from a neighboring island arrives after a storm, the boy grows into manhood alongside her. But cultural taboos and mounting tensions with her hostile tribe threaten their isolated paradise, leading toward an inevitable and dangerous confrontation.