Publisher's Synopsis
Edom, Louisiana is a small, quiet place where secrets fester.
Most of the future that Cara Deerfield hoped for fell by the wayside a long while back, a casualty of more dire obligations. In a life riddled with loss, she fights to hold onto what little she has. For as long as Cara can remember, she's been visited by dreams of a burning tree - the enormous live oak in front of the abandoned house right down the hill. When a stranger moves in, she catches people in town talking about him like he's some kin to the boogeyman. It doesn't stop her from meeting him or trying to befriend him. After all, whispers have gone around about her own family.
Coming home is no easy thing for Thierry Cotton. He's been gone for a very long time, and returning to Edom feels like slogging into darkness. When the woman who lives in the only other house on his backroad comes drifting into his yard, it's like she's set a spark to tinder. There's something about her, something familiar that draws him. He can't ignore her any more than he can ignore what goes on in his home or the woods surrounding them. There are things that he needs to face, though, before he can find any sort of peace with the past that drove him away in the first place. He has work to do.
There's always been something seething beneath the surface of Edom, smothered under blissful disregard and sweet Louisiana manners. When the unthinkable happens, when it seems the community has a murderer in its midst, some old ideals rear their ugly heads. What was left in the dark long ago must come to light. And as evil flirts with Edom right out in the open, Cara and Thierry find themselves connected through the past and present in more ways than one.
