If Violet Temple has learned anything in her almost 60 years, it’s how to set a boundary. 

Maybe. 

Well, she’s trying. When Kyle Garner and Josh Albans ask to rent kayaks from her Juneau, Alaska guiding business, she says no. After all, they want to paddle to Egret Island, which is both impossible (due to the famously wild waters in Southeast Alaska) and pointless (there’s nothing on the island save a decrepit fox farm).

But there’s more to the island than meets the eye. A ragtag bunch of former residents. A few ratty fox pelts. Ample tall tales about life on the edges of society. And maybe the missing work of 1950s mega-famous romance novelist Dierdre St. Claire, which is rumored to be stashed with a hermit she had an affair with decades earlier. Kyle, St. Claire’s spurned heir, believes not only in the mystery manuscript but also in its value on the market. After immersing himself in the online manosphere, he’s pretty sure he deserves control of St. Claire’s legacy. The parts that will make him money, anyway. And he’s letting no one stop him. Not Josh Albans. Surely not Violet Temple. 

What’s a menopausal woman to do when a clueless young man threatens her business and her new-found friends? And tries to steal the work of a legend? Violet’s about to decide, and show people who normally don’t see her what she’s really made of.