The seas are calm and the ship is sturdy—but the shipboard romance is doomed.
Dan does not know that Joan is dying of an incurable disease. Joan does not know Dan is a convicted murderer en route to San Quentin. Still, they have four weeks to find happiness in each other’s arms. Or will Dan forsake the love of a lifetime for his own life, using the vessel’s Honolulu layover as a chance to escape the law?