"When she finds herself broke and stranded in a half-finished tract house in a Florida swamp, Ida Overdorff is left to abandon her plans and fend for herself. She discovers a strange community around her--a millionaire living in a treehouse, two feral child thieves--and clings to her dream of returning to New York. Meanwhile, as storms both meteorological and emotional threaten Ida's future, she comes to understand that nobody's luck--even hers--is all bad."--Page 4 of cover.