You’d think every dang person from Lampasas to Houston wished to go to Galveston this popular August time. Everyone but Seth.

Galveston, Texas, could be the booming city of the brand-new twentieth century, filled up with opportunites for all those, but to Seth it is the end of the desire. He longs to be a carpenter like his dad, yet Papa provides moved the family members to Galveston in order that Seth can become a health care provider. Still, the previous few weeks of summer may not be so bad. Seth offers landed his first real job as a constructor, and there’s that gal next door, the one with the sun-bright hair. Things appear to be looking up . until a storm warning is raised one sweltering afternoon.

They say a north wind always brings change, but no-one could ever have imagined this. Arranged through the Galveston Surprise of 1900, this is an memorable story of survival in the face of natural disaster.