An atmospheric, multi-generational drama set in rural Louisiana full
of complex family relationships and high-stake mysteries.
Owen Foster has never wanted for anything. Then his mother shows up at
his elite New Orleans boarding school cradling a bombshell: his
privileged life has been funded by stolen money. After using the family
business, the single largest employer in his small Louisiana town, to
embezzle millions and drain the employees' retirement accounts, Owen's
father vanished without a trace, leaving Owen and his mother to deal
with the fallout.
Owen returns to Lake Cane to finish his senior year, where people he
hardly remembers despise him for his father's crimes. It's bad enough
dealing with muttered insults and glares, but when Owen and his mother
receive increasingly frightening threats from someone out for revenge,
he knows he must get to the bottom of what really happened at Louisiana
Frac . . . and the cryptic note his father sent him at his boarding
school days before disappearing.
Owen's only refuge is the sprawling, isolated pecan orchard he works at
after school, owned by a man named Gus who has his own secrets -- and in
some ways seems to know Owen better than he knows himself. As Owen
uncovers a terrible injustice that looms over the same Preacher Woods
he's claimed as his own, he must face a shocking truth about his past --
and write a better future.