- Roarke falls in love with New Yorker Helena Marsh who is returning to the island after four years. Engineer and self-professed wimp Tony Emerson wants the strength to stand up for mild-mannered people like himself.
- Roarke and a woman who's been to the island before fall in love, but she must choose between staying with him and saving her late husband's hospital school in India; and a self-professed wimp wants the strength to stand up for himself and others who are weak like him.—Kim West
- "Return": Roarke and Tattoo have a repeat visitor -- Helena Marsh, a successful New York City fashion designer. She's a widow with a ten-year-old son named Jamie, and she can't decide between three very wealthy men who are all interested in her. In between preparing for an island fashion show, she keeps asking Roarke's advice and help. It all seems innocent, till the fashion show is in progress and Tattoo realizes that Helena keeps gazing at Roarke in a strange way. He tells Roarke he's pretty sure that Helena's romantically interested in him. At first Roarke is skeptical, but when he speaks with Helena again, he realizes Tattoo's right. Meanwhile Jamie has an encounter with a young man who's part of his mother's past in India; and when Roarke and Helena come back to her bungalow from a date in which they admit their feelings for each other, Helena is confronted by this young man and a companion she knows all too well. They oversee the Calcutta hospital school that Helena's late husband and Jamie's father started; now they are begging her to come back and take over operations, for funding is running low and the school has suffered from storm damage. Torn between helping people in dire need and remaining with Roarke, she finds herself going back and forth on the issue before Roarke finally urges her to go back and save the hospital school. They have to abandon their wedding plans, but Roarke takes comfort in knowing she's doing the right thing. "The Toughest Man Alive": Tony Emerson is a self-professed wimp who wants to be able to stand up to bullies. So Roarke gives him the power and the courage it takes to defend himself, and Emerson almost immediately finds himself in the middle of a sticky situation. A small island village makes its living through pearl diving; but every year the greedy Captain Fisk and his toadies raid the village and take most of the inhabitants' income for themselves. They want Emerson to put a stop to it. Fisk at first laughs at Emerson, but then Emerson proves himself with a show of strength, driving Fisk and his cronies out of town temporarily. But then Roarke sternly informs Emerson that the check he gave him as payment for his fantasy has bounced, and therefore Roarke is canceling his fantasy effective immediately! (Unbeknownst to the hapless guest, the check didn't really bounce; Roarke is merely putting him to the test using Emerson's own natural strength.) Dejected, Emerson delivers the bad news to the villagers; but, unwilling to leave them in the lurch, he gathers several people together and concocts a plan to defeat Fisk. Working together, they finally convince Fisk to leave the village alone for good, using their own combined strength; and Emerson leaves the island with a new love interest, native villager Anna.
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