For eleven years the clock has been ticking for Russell Gaines while he sat in Parchman Penitentiary. His time now up, and believing his debt has been paid, he returns home only to discover that revenge lives and breathes all around. Delivered in powerful and lyrical prose, it is a story of troubled souls twisted with regret, and bound by secrets that stretch over the years and across the land.
For eleven years the clock has been ticking for Russell Gaines while he sat in Parchman Penitentiary. His time now up, and believing his debt has been paid, he returns home only to discover that revenge lives and breathes all around....