Cozy crime meets women's historical fiction in the Rum Runners' Chronicles.She left criminal life behind. Will her new business venture send her to sleep with the fishes?Florida Coast, 1932. Edith Duffy might be grieving her gangster husband's death, but she's no damsel in distress. Leaving the sordid world of Philadelphia bootlegging, she settles in a small town outside Miami and buys a speakeasy. But when she launches a lucrative rum-running operation, indignant locals conspire to destroy her.Edith lands squarely back in gangland culture, with a Bible-thumping preacher campaigning to shut her down and smugglers resentful of her skill. And now she must forge alliances and make unlikely allies just to survive. Luckily, her mentor is none other than the wife of the notorious Al Capone…Will Edith's fondness for underworld profits lead her to a dead end?Gathering Storm is the first book in the Rum Runners' Chronicles, a fast-paced historical women's fiction trilogy. If you like atmospheric settings, mob stories, and independent heroines, then you'll love Sherilyn Decter's Prohibition-era adventure.
