The Girl in the Barrel

(Previously published as Whirlpool) The year is 1923, the Jazz Age is in full swing and the world has gone crazy. Women are cutting their hair, shortening their skirts and embracing the first roots of feminism. Evangeline Murray, a young widow from Ohio, is recruited by the Women's Freedom Movement to represent the spirit of modern womanhood by going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Evangeline eagerly embraces her opportunity to achieve fame, fortune, and maybe a Hollywood career, until she sees the power of the river and begins to understand that she is risking her life. Joshua McClaren, an enigmatic, battle-scarred veteran of Word War I, and the best boatman on the Canadian shore of the Niagara, reluctantly agrees to launch the headstrong Evangeline. 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 two more lives.


Genre: Historical