The Heat by Mia Hopkins (Contest)
Rumrunners and Suffragettes Hello! Mia Hopkins here. I’m so proud to be a part of the Rogues anthology. My contribution, “The Heat,” is a Prohibition-era story about an Irish-American bootlegger named Jim who becomes stranded during a winter storm. Because cops are on the lookout for rumrunners, Jim seeks shelter in the house of Helen Baker, a widowed suffragette who’s both fascinated by and attracted to the mysterious stranger. Soon Jim and Helen find their way upstairs, where they find…