From the author hailed as an important talent, a storytelling writer of poetic narrative power (Los Angeles Times Book Review) comes a dazzling novel of psychological suspense.This is the darkest story I've ever heard. With these haunting words, Thomas H. Cook begins a tale of love and its aftermath, of a town sent reeling from a moment of passionate betrayal. At its center was Kelli Troy and the town of Choctaw, Alabama. And on one hazy summer afternoon decades ago, a searing burst of violence engulfed Breakheart Hill. For one man who knows the truth about those shattering events, it is a memory that would become his awful secret.From the Paperback edition.