When Calhoun Hipp, retired insurance executive from Upstate South Carolina bought a pleasure fishing boat, the Mahalo, he imagined his life would become a great deal slower paced. That dream vanished one night in Bimini, Bahamas when he and his boat captain, Hank, were literally bowled over by a beautiful blonde fleeing out from a local bar. Chasing her was her former boyfriend and two henchmen. What follows next is an intricate web of her ultimate rescue from this group of international drug smugglers and the unexpected love story which develops between Calhoun and the young vixen known as Eva.


The true stories which are chronicled on the 50' Hatteras sport fisher span a timeframe from 1964 until 1976 as Calhoun welcomes Eva into his world of competitive deep-sea fishing made all the more entertaining by the ever-resourceful Captain Hank and his native associates who make up the first mates. Fishing between Bimini and South Florida the story builds up to a final showdown between the smugglers and the crew of the Mahalo in cliffhanging fashion.