Elizabeth Goodweather and her husband built a rewarding life in the hills and hollows of their adopted Appalachian home. But now Elizabeth is alone, her husband tragically killed, her children grown, the land around her filled with customs and beliefs she cannot share. Its still a good lifetending the small herb and flower businessbut Elizabeths fragile peace is about to be shattered.Cletus Gentry vanished while hunting ginseng in the hillsand his mother is sure the childlike man was murdered. As Elizabeth retraces Cletuss last wanderings, she will discover that a killer has been waiting all the while in the coves and hollows near her farm for her to see the lightand then come willingly to her own death.From the Paperback edition.