Against the Gale: The Impossible Rescue of the Princess Sophia

What do you do when your very best effort...

...could never have been enough?

Alaska, 1918. The SS Princess Sophia is sailing down the coast when a raging blizzard drives the ship onto hidden rocks. Stranded miles from shore, the passengers wait as waves crash and the wind howls. A rescue fleet arrives, but no one can get close enough. Any lifeboat lowered would be smashed to pieces in the furious sea.

Everyone is stuck.

Fourteen-year-old fisherman Isaac Brewster can't accept waiting. While exp...