Running rum during Prohibition, she'll risk her life--and her heart.
Motherless and destitute, Frieda Hope is determined to make a better
life for herself and her sister, Bea. The girls are taken in by a kindly
fisherman named Silver, and Frieda begins to feel at home on the water.
When Silver sells his fishing boat to WWI veteran Sam Hicks, thinking
Sam would be a fine husband for Frieda, she's outraged. But Frieda
manages to talk Sam into teaching her to repair boat engines instead, so
she has a trade of her own and won't have to marry.
Frieda quickly discovers that a mechanic's wages won't support Bea and
Silver, and is lured into a money-making team of rumrunners supplying
alcohol to New York City speakeasies. Speeding into dangerous waters to
transport illegal liquor, Frieda gets swept up in the lucrative, risky
work--and swept off her feet by a handsome Ivy Leaguer who's in it just
for fun.
As danger mounts and her own feelings threaten to drown her, can Frieda
find her way back to solid ground--and to a love that will sustain her?