A Pulitzer Prize?winning Journalist It's high summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia ? but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small, hard-luck town. County prosecutor Bell Elkins and Sheriff Nick Fogelsong are stymied by a murderer who seems to come and go like smoke on the mountain. And now, Bell must deal with her sister Shirley's return from prison. Like Bell, she carries the indelible scars of a savage past.
