Caroline Oresteia is destined for the river Her father is a wherryman as was her grandmother All Caro needs is for the river god to whisper her name & her fate is sealed But at seventeen Caro may be too late So when pirates burn ships & her father is arrested Caro volunteers to transport mysterious cargo in exchange for his release Secretly Caro hopes that by piloting her own wherry the river god will finally speak her name But when the cargo becomes more than Caro expected she finds herself caught in a web of politics & lies With much more than her father's life at stake Caro must choose between the future she knows & the one she could have never imagined