Publisher's Synopsis
One Sunday, nine-year-old Jess secretly witnesses his autistic brother being smothered to death during a healing service in the mountains of North Carolina. Sheriff Clem Barefield arrives to find a group of believers who have moved the boys body and wont speak of his death. At the center of the mystery is Carson Chambliss, a snake-handling ex-convict turned preacher whose past is as mysterious as the power he claims to possess.
