Alabama, 1942. The war is everywhere, but Victora sixteen-year old boy sent by his father to care for his dying grandmother on a lonely island in Mobile Baycan only dream of it. Then he wakes one amazing night to a thunderous roar from the Bay, and watches as a thug burns his boat. He also discovers a decomposing corpse, witnesses a near-seduction . . . and sees the ominous shadow of an enemy submarine surfacing at night.Suddenly Victor is playing unforeseen rolesnow hostage, now pursuerin the perilous war at home. . . .