Unintentional stowaway, Alexandria, stumbles into Prohibition's underworld--and the heart of Jake McKenzie. As a young woman Alex thrills to the risks of rum running, speeding over the dark waters, racing past the many islands between Canada and Washington State in an attempt to evade the law. But when she catches the eye of Antonio, the head of the Italian Mafia intent on taking over the Northwest Territory, excitement turns perilous. Now, decades later, unsettled by the false accusation of Jake as Antonio's murderer, Alex musters the courage to clear her husband's name. She hires Jean, a college student, to assist with her wildly overgrown garden. But as the summer progresses, more than the unraveling of the flower beds emerges, as the clues to Antonio's demise are unearthed. Set in the 1970s, steeped with research of the bootlegging era, Whiskey Cove portrays the tumultuous times of a changing society ruled by the unquenched demand for booze and the law that worked both sides.