In 1873 Captain Luke Williamson discovers a murdered passenger aboard his steamboat Paragon while docked in Memphis. When his first mate is accused of the crime, he enlists the aide of private investigator and ex-Confederate soldier, Masey Baldridge, and Salina Tyner, a resourceful lady-of-the night, to find the culprit and clear his crew member and friend. Follow the story as tension, jealousy, and greed ripple from the recent Civil War like the wake from a riverboat