In Depression-era Key West, Mariella Bennet knows hunger. Her struggle to support her family following her father's death leads her to a bar and a bordello, where she attracts the interest of two men: world-famous writer Ernest Hemingway and Gavin Murray, a WWI veteran laborer. Hired as a maid by Hemingway's second wife, Mariella enters a rarefied world. . even as reliable Gavin draws her back to what matters most.
