Les Clary's final case has broken the still surface of his backwater town. Becky, a park ranger with her own mysterious past, shares Les's consolation in the natural world that lies just beyond their hopelessly broken town. As Les and Becky explore the county's lyrically beautiful landscape, they find themselves led deeper into the heart of the town's corruption, and into the darkness of their own ruptured histories. With the poetic quality of William Faulkner.