When ex-cop Cam Richter agrees to do a friend a favor and investigate the assault of a young woman in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, he has no idea just how dangerous his search will become. Matriarch Grinny Creigh and her extended family not only control the crystal meth trade and own just about everything and everyone in their neck of the woods, they also operate a much worse enterprise, a dark secret that terrifies any children unfortunate...

Cam Richter, needing a break from his too-eventful detective career, is in search of more peaceful pastures in the North Carolina countryside. He buys a seven hundred acre ante-bellum plantation, but it doesn't take long for him to discover that his new locale is not as quiet as he'd hoped. Almost immediately, Cam finds himself caught up in mischievous pranks around his land, the site of a Civil War-era massacre. When the pranks turn hostile, however,...