On the eve of eighteen-year-old Jeremy Hodak's departure for college, a violent August storm sweeps across northern Lake Michigan. In it's path lay the town of Wolf's Head Bay. The following day, christened in bright sunshine, Jeremy and his nine-year-old brother, Travis, set sail for South Manitou Island, aboard their single mast sloop, the Lady Caroline. Slicing through whitecaps, approaching the island, the Lady Caroline is rocked by a shuddering impact. Jeremy tumbles from the cockpit and into the cabin where he lay unconscious. When he awakens, he makes a horrifying discovery; Travis was...