New York: St Martin's, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set mostly in the Great Smoky Mountains and involving a 150 year old blood feud - "a literary novel that is also an intricate suspenseful mystery - a story blending the macabre and the historic.. the violent and the heroic." Dustjacket praise from Reynolds Price, Russell Banks and James Lee Burke, among others. 341pp. ISBN: 0-312-271808.