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A Native American child burial is found in a cliff by the river, revealing dire Southern history and raising vengeful spirits. Three families' lives are turned upside down - they will not survive the coming storm without joining forces.

"Superb"
—FOREWORD REVIEWS

"Mesmerizing"
—SUE MONK KIDD

“An impressive, sprawling novel about love and hate, life and death, sin and redemption, one worth any reader’s time.”
—SOUTHERN LITERARY REVIEW

“Sparkles with a powerful sense of place ... compelling ... hard to put down.”
—MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW

“The best damned book I have ever read.”
—RANA SOUTHERN, BRANCH MANAGER, MT. AIRY PUBLIC LIBRARY

“Spectacular! Everybody read this book!”
—HELEN LITTLE, THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PODCAST, iHEARTRADIO

SIR WALTER RALEIGH AWARD
CROOKS CORNER PRIZE FINALIST
NATIONAL WOMEN'S BOOK ASSOCIATION GREAT GROUP READ

Marjorie Hudson was born in a small town in Illinois, grew up in Washington, D.C., and now writes and lives in Chatham County, North Carolina. She is author of story collection ACCIDENTAL BIRDS OF THE CAROLINAS, a PEN/Hemingway Honorable Mention, and the first book of Ambler County stories, and SEARCHING FOR VIRGINIA DARE, a North Carolina Arts Council Notable Book, both from Press 53.

Hudson's work explores the links between history, the human spirit, and the natural world, and reviewers have compared her work to that of Thomas Hardy and Isabel Allende.

ANDRE DUBUS III says, "This woman writes like a dream!"

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