Accident or suicide? That's the somple question pu to Inspector Michael Green when a derelict stranger falls to his death from an abandoned church tower in a quiet river village at the edge
of his jurisdiction. But when the victim turns out to be a lost son of a local farm family cursed in recent years by tragedy, madness, and death, Green begins to suspect something far more
sinister is at work. Probing the family's past, he uncovers a toxic mix of rigid fundamentalism, teenage rebellion and a family secret so horrific that twenty years later, someone is still
desperate to prevent the truth from coming to light.