Augustus Cain faces a past he wants to forget, a present without prospect or fortune, and an uncertain future marred by the loss of his most prized possession: the horse that has been his working companion for years. He is also a man haunted by a terrible skill-the ability to track people who don't want to be found. Rosetta is a runaway slave fueled by the passion and determination only a mother can feel. She bears the scars-inside and out-of a...

From the author of the critically acclaimed novels A Brother's Blood and The Blind Side of the Heart comes a brilliant tale of a decent man's struggle to choose between his past and his future, between the woman he once loved and the woman he now loves.

A priest in Massachusetts is accused of sodomy by former altar boys. Although claiming innocence, he accepts a bargain plea and while in jail is indicted for the murder of a boy. At that, even the loyalty of his housekeeper wavers, the narrator of this story. By the author of A Brother's Blood.