"A young, restless Alabama teacher searching for a sense of purpose accepts a position at a tiny Louisiana bayou school, where a lonely Cajun fisherman, a tight-knit community, and a legendary white alligator will change her life forever"-- Ellie Fields accepts a teaching job in tiny Bernadette, Louisiana deep in bayou country to escape the familiarity of her Alabama home. Though suspicious of outsiders, most of the people come to appreciate the...

After catching a cutthroat, a vanishing species of fish in the Snake River, Spinner Shafter and her cousin Alligator do some ecological detecting to determine where the fish came from and how he had survived.