Publisher's Synopsis
In a small town, everybody is next of kin to everybody else. When a local high-school student is found murdered in a car in Bitter River, the hunt is on to find her killer. Bell Elkins is on the case, and determined to bring justice for the girl whose death devastates the whole population of Acker's Gap. But there are even more sinister events taking place in the isolated West Virginia town, and in the shadow of the Appalachian Mountains the strength of small community ties is tested by catastrophe.
