Empty Hands

Unlike most of Stringer's work, it is set in northern Canada. A spoiled only daughter of a wealthy father is banished by her parent away from the bright lights. This young flapper nearly drowns in a canoe, but is saved by one Shomer Grimshaw, a young timber engineer. The two end up on a remote island with only the clothes they are wearing, and must battle the elements to survive. Naturally their affections for one another grow perforce with the struggle, and produced what the dust jacket pronounced "an absorbing romance that is sure to prove enjoyable."