A sweeping novel that juxtaposes the legends of the Civil War with the lives of the modern-day mountain folk.

In the Appalachians, a historian writing on Katie Wyler, a young woman kidnapped from the area by Indians in 1789, sets out to retrace her tragic journey. He is unaware her spirit haunts the hills, nor is he aware that an escaped convict is on the loose. By the author of Bimbos of the Death Sun.

Historian Jeremy Cobb is backpacking on the Appalachian Trail, attempting to retrace the tragic journey of 18-year-old Katie Wyler, who was captured by the Shawnee after the massacre of her pioneer family.

While planning her wedding in five weeks and working on her doctorate, Elizabeth MacPherson tackles an unusual mystery.

Sheriff Spencer Arrowood receives an invitation to an execution for Fate Harkryder, a young man he helped convict twenty years earlier for the murder of two hikers, but the parallels between the Harkryder case and another murder that took place over one hundred years earlier, leads Spencer to question whether Harkryder is really guilty.

Folksinger Lark McCourry is haunted by the memory of a song she heard as a child living in the North Carolina mountians. Over the years, the memory of the old song has dimmed and lark's only hope of preserving her family legacy lies in mountain wisewoman Nora Bonsteel, who talks to both the living and the dead.