"The Island of Desire" is an island adventure cum romance novel by author Robert Dean Frisbie, based on his own real life adventures. Frisbie begins with the tale of his courtship of his Polynesian wife on the idyllic setting of the Puka Puka Island. Thereafter, the couple moves with their four children to Suvarrow Island in the Cook Islands. It is there that they learn to survive on the island, hunting and gathering for their needs. But their blissful life on the island will face its greatest challenge when a furious hurricane storms the island, bringing untold destruction in its wake?