Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. and someone has begun furtively pain.
A fatherless baby is born ...
A beautiful young woman ignites forbidden passions.
A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion.
And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke s world.
But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers and two very dangerous men came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm.
Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie