Lynn Chandler Willis

When F.B.I. agent Emily Gayle's partner is brutally murdered, Emily forsakes her career at the bureau and returns home to the North Carolina mountains to care for her disabled father. Guilt ridden over leaving her partner alone to die, Emily takes a job as an end-of-life caregiver. Deep in Appalachia, Jude Courtland is desperate for a fast buck to pay for his grandmother's chemotherapy. Together with his brother Crispin and cousin Devo, the trio...