Pages yellowing with age Cover is faded and worn across top edge Spine is nice and all pages intact Triangle Books, 1942, 298 pages A salty historical romance of Charleston and the Florida Keys over 100 years ago. This is the novel on which Cecil B. DeMille based his thrilling Technicolor picture for Paramount. With a Foreword by Cecil B. DeMille. Based on the 1941 novel by Thelma Strabel, which was originally serialized in The Saturday Evening Post in 1940. In 1840s Florida, a marine salvage businesswoman falls in love with a shipwreck survivor, but their romance is complicated by the advances of the head of a steamship company. DeMille's second feature film in color, wildly successful upon release. Made into 1942 movie starring: John Wayne Paulette Goddard Ray Milland Susan Hayward