About This Book
Set in the Kentucky highlands, the narrative follows a fierce, long-running clan feud centered on the mountain patriarch Cap Lutts and the rival Southpaw faction led by Sap McGill. Through betrayals, murders, prison, courtroom scenes and a graveyard massacre, the plot traces the toll of inherited violence on Lutts's family and community, especially Belle-Ann. Interwoven episodes—hauntings, confessions, a mission school, changing creeds and a fugitive flight—examine loyalty, vengeance, conscience and faith, and build toward confrontations and reckonings that reshape loyalties and prompt moral and spiritual resolution.
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