Set in Coastal Texas in the 1920's, This raw historical novel depicts Alice's story, as s a young woman who is determined to be somebody in the world. Murder, rape, and revenge are at hand as she tries to gain her freedom with enough money and power to be her own woman. She quickly realizes who her loyalties need to lie with, and through navigating this passage of young womanhood, she learns who her friends are and who she will become.