1969. Fricke Island, isolated in the marshes of the western basin of Lake Erie, is home to grumpy old Forest Fricke, a commercial Lake Erie Fisherman. He lives with his wife Fiona and 15-year-old twins Floyd and Freddie, also known as the Fricke Tag Team Terror Squad.

The Lives of the Fricke Family are transformed by outside influences and the need to survive. For Forest, it is a tale of deep despair, and for Fiona, a tale of hope.

The story covers the island's darkest days during the prohbition era to it's emergence from isolation to become a vital part of the community.

In the first book of the Erie Marsh Series, POP's, where you were introduced to the Fricke Twins, the protagonist of that book, Mickey, was fishing on Lake Erie at the mouth of Wilbur Creek when the Fricke Twins chased him to the Fricke Island Compound. That is where ths story begns from the point of view of the Fricke Twins.