Captain Holden and the Enterprise crew find themselves caught between ruthless Brian Cloud, who monopolizes all the cotton crop in the area, and Laurie Rawlings, the wife of a cotton planter, who doesn't like her husband being under Cloud's control.—anonymous
During stop in Vicksburg, Holden meets Brian Cloud, a wealthy businessman who monopolizes shipping along the Yazoo, and is warned not to accept cargo from any of the plantations that line the river. A pretty plantation owner begs Holden to transport her cotton crop to Memphis to break Cloud's stranglehold on the planters in Northwestern Louisiana.—David Bassler