A pleasant camping trip in Tennessee turns into a race for survival for Jenny, a freelance writer who specializes in equipment and site reviews for outdoor magazines. While testing kayak paddles, Jenny stumbles across a hidden drug cache, witnesses a freak lightning strike that almost kills two of her fellow campers, and meets two friendly fly-fishermen and an attractive and attentive park ranger. Paddling down one of the local whitewater creeks, Jenny runs into the drug smugglers and is forced to fight - and paddle - for her life.

Susan Davis Herring is a long-time whitewater canoeist, hiker, and outdoors enthusiast. Her garage is filled with six canoes and four recumbent bicycles; when she is home her SUV is parked in the driveway. She lives in north Alabama and has paddled on streams and rivers in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Colorado. A retired academic librarian, she has a BA and MA in English and MA and PhD in library and information science.