When cub reporter Serena Watson’s curiosity about an explosion at historic ‘Peck House” in Savannah, leads her into the world of intrigue, she finds herself relying on protection from a stranger who knows a good deal about her, but whom she doesn’t quite trust, especially when he disappears with the vital title search information which seems to hold the key clue to the mystery.

As she continues to dig further into historical records, her life is suddenly in danger, and the stranger, Brent reappears – with her father, no less, to arrange for her safe escape. Can she once again trust this man with her desperate flight in a raging storm, to his sailboat, hidden in one of the many inlets of the outlying marsh surrounding the outskirts of Savannah and into safe open water.