Storm Surge

She rebuilt from the ashes. Now they've come for the one thing she can't replace.

Coconut Grove, Florida. 1932.

Nine months ago, thugs burned Edith Duffy's saloon to the ground and left her tied to a chair in the smoke.

She built it back bigger. Mickey's Goodtimes Saloon — Spanish tile, a wraparound veranda, brass hurricane lanterns flanking the door, and the finest liquor on the Florida coast arriving from Nassau courtesy of the only woman in the trade who's her equal. Edith isn't running a blind pig anymore. She's about to corner the market on every speakeasy and casino from Miami to the Keys.

She has never been better at business.

She has never been worse at the thing that can't be bought.

Because there's an eleven-year-old boy living upstairs, and Edith keeps forgetting his birthday.

When the respectable ladies of Coconut Grove decide a saloon is no place for a child, they arrive with a briefcase, a notebook, and a brand-new state law. Behind them, patient as rot, stands the preacher who has wanted Edith gone since the day she landed — a man whose real business has nothing whatever to do with God.

They can't take Goodtimes from her. She's already proved that.

So they take Leroy instead.

Edith Duffy has spent her whole life certain that anything can be bought, outmanoeuvred, or burned down and built back bigger. Now she faces the one loss her money cannot reach — and the terrible arithmetic of what she would trade to undo it.

Storm Surge is the second book in the Rum Runners' Chronicles, a historical women's fiction trilogy set in the last dangerous years of Prohibition. If you were hooked by Boardwalk Empire and Peaky Blinders, or you love the fierce, unconventional heroines of Beatriz Williams and Kate Quinn, Edith Duffy will get under your skin.

Scroll up and grab your copy of Storm Surge today — and find out what a woman who has never begged will do when begging is all that's left.