By early childhood, Annie Revels had everyone's role in life figured out but her own. She understood that her mother was ill and needed to be taken care of. That her father was a waterman, a life she envied. And that her little sister, Rebecca, was beautiful. And she was not.

When Annie's father suddenly dies, no one questions which sister will take his place aboard the family fishing boat. And for the first time, Annie falls easily into the only place in life she thought she could ever fit in-as a waterwoman.