Book description
Dixon Sinclair arrives in Jexville, Mississippi, the town of her
forebears, to find solace, stop drinking, and rebuild her life after
her father's murder. As the new publisher of the weekly newspaper and
a second-generation journalist, she's determined to ignite the
political will of the townspeople and expose the corruption of the old
guard. She forms an uneasy partnership with Sheriff J. D. Horton,
another prodigal son returned hoping to find peace and a sense of
fulfillment by keeping his town safe. Then two teenage girls disappear
from a sandbar on the swift-moving Pascagoula River, and fears surface
that evil lurks in the depths of the swampland-an evil consumed with
rage against betrayal and an insatiable desire for vengeance.
Suspicions fall on a mysterious transient, a young man running from a
violent past in the Catholic Church of Mexico. Yet J. D. and Dixon
discover that many there in Jexville have been betrayed, innocents
suffering the sins of the fathers. Now they must find out who is
willing to kill for revenge.
