Joe Rath, a bartender at the Emerald restaurant in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, lives on a forty foot Island Gypsy Trawler and is deeply in love with....Bubbles, U of Chicago valedictorian, fluent in several Chinese dialects, works as a server at the Emerald. She is deeply in love with Joe, and best friends with....Sheets, the mysterious B-Dock stranger who lives on a forty-one foot Morgan Classic Sloop. He is Joe's best friend as well, and deeply in love with....Bubbles, see above.When Sheets' brutal past resurfaces, can the three friends' unique lifestyle survive? Can they?