The compelling fiction of best-selling author Jane Roberts Wood, recipient of the Texas Institute of Letters Award, has prompted the Dallas Morning News to praise her as “a genuine Texas treasure.” In 1946 a young couple is brutally murdered in the East Texas town of Cold Springs. Now—34 years later—rumor has it that the sole suspect in these murders has returned. While the response to this report ranges from giddy excitement to vile loathing, another dead body turns up.
