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.
