Tom Devlin roams the countryside, charming the farmers' wives and tricking the farmers out of fruits and vegetables, until he meets his match in a plain-faced, sharp-tongued farmer's daughter.
A mysterious drifter named Alex Heyst rescues a "bad girl" from a seedy tropical hotel and takes her home to Samburan, his own island in the East Indies. Three intruders follow them and bring horror, death, and a strange, haunting victory.
Apropos, an unlikely noble, finds his life turned upside-down when the sorceress Sharee re-enters his life after being accused of stealing by the warlike Lord Bellicose.
Tom Devlin roams the countryside, charming the farmers' wives and tricking the farmers out of fruits and vegetables, until he meets his match in a plain-faced, sharp-tongued farmer's daughter.