Grace Hardgrave's daughters are hungry, and after finding no work on the streets of 1917 New York City, Grace prostitutes herself to feed her girls. No more. Sick of doubt and running, Grace returns to the place where everything went wrong--the Pennsylvania farm she fled as a girl--to face a predator and reclaim the life she abandoned in fear. Jonah McClellan, the seven-foot, seventy-year-old tyrant who runs Walnut County's brothels and distilleries, discovers his youngest son beaten to death in a field. The McClellan and Hardgrave feud is as old as the land. Jonah blames Hoot Hardgrave and sets about destroying his livestock, his livelihood, his family. But Hoot Hardgrave didn't murder anyone... and Jonah wants more than revenge. There's nothing Jonah McClellan won't kill...and his plans are bigger than stealing Hardgrave land and crushing a girl who should have stayed away. But Grace Hardgrave has more mettle than her brother Hoot. It's time Jonah McClellan learns fear. Grit Lit to the bone. Sometimes Bone. Prepare yourself for a battle of good and evil unlike any you've seen.