Hudson Lake

In the summer of 1926, jazz lovers from all over the Midwest go where the weather is hot and the music hotter--the Blue Lantern Inn on Hudson Lake, a rural Indiana dance hall where the season's resident jazz band features a young cornet player named Bix Beiderbecke. For Bix, Hudson Lake is a safe but temporary harbor from a failed romance, conflicts with his middle-class Iowa family, and a growing dependency on alcohol. To the redheaded known as Joy, Hudson Lake provides everything she needs--a roof over her head, the music she loves, and Bix. Harriet Braun, a young Indiana University student working at the resort for the summer, views Joy and the musicians as another subject for study--until her involvement with Bix threatens to turn her safe world upside down. And when outside influences show up--including local bootleggers, the Ku Klux Klan and a Chicago investor named "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn--jazz isn't the only thing that's hot at Hudson Lake...