The new novel from New York Times bestselling and Los Angeles
Times Book Prize-winning author S. A. Cosby, "one of the most muscular,
distinctive, grab-you-by-both-ears voices in American crime fiction."
--Washington Post.
After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to
Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and
honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force
inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black
sheriff in the history of the county.
Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally
shot by Titus's deputies.
Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever it leads. But no one expected
he would unearth a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight,
haunting the dirt lanes and woodland clearings of Charon.
Now, Titus must pull off the impossible: stay true to his instincts,
prevent outright panic, and investigate a shocking crime in a small town
where everyone knows everyone yet secrets flourish. All while also
breaking up backroads bar fights and being forced to protect racist
Confederate pride marchers.
For a Black man wearing a police uniform in the American South, that's
no easy feat. But Charon is Titus's home and his heart, and he won't let
the darkness overtake it. Even as it threatens to consume him...
