...and a Good Woman, Too.

June has lived a life of poverty and isolation, since the age of seven. Now nineteen, she longs to see the world, but finds herself entangled in a dangerously imbalanced relationship, and trapped in a booming Florida neighborhood where she is an obvious outsider. Emily Winchester is a cosmopolitan girl, disappointed to find herself stuck in Florida after dropping out of college. Dependent on her wealthy parents-and the older men she manipulates at the local night club-Emily craves adventure and dreams of freedom and empowerment that is hard to come by for a young female in the 1960s. Hiram-an escaped convict, thief, and thug-is the unlikely conduit to bring these two young women together. He has big plans for turning his life around and making up for his history of missteps and misfortune. But Hiram's legacy of hurt and harm has a way of drawing everyone around him into a vortex of chaos and violence.