The Girl in the Barrel: 1923: Evangeline challenges Niagara Falls

Written by Eileen Enwright Hodgetts

Narrated by Nancy Batco

A young widow ready to risk everything! Niagara Falls ready to take it all… 

The year is 1923 and the jazz age is in full swing. Evangeline Murray, a young widow from Ohio, is recruited by the Women’s Freedom Movement to represent the spirit of modern womanhood by plunging over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Evangeline eagerly embraces her opportunity to achieve fame and fortune, until she sees the power of the river and begins to understand the risk she is taking. Joshua McClaren, an enigmatic battle-scarred veteran of World War I, and the best boatman on the river, reluctantly agrees to launch the headstrong Evangeline. Joshua has seen hundreds of bodies surface in the Whirlpool below the Falls, and has faced death on the battlefields of Flanders so he has no respect for the charming, impetuous Mrs. Murray, and her desire for fame. Before the barrel can be launched, each of them will have to face their own demons; painful secrets will be revealed and the Niagara River will claim another life. Inspired by true stories of the Falls, Whirlpool is a romance, an adventure, and the closest that most of us will ever come to taking the fateful plunge over the Falls. 

Buy "Whirlpool" today to feel the thrill of plunging over the Falls and into …?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Emerge Publishing
• Release date: May 27, 2016
• ISBN: 9781987122053