Publisher's Synopsis
When Ben Harper goes to the gallows for a bank robbery killing, he leaves his young children John and Pearl to hide the $10,000. Soon a strange preacher comes to town and claims to have known their daddy. He preaches the word of the Lord, but darkness lurks in his heart, a knife lies in his pocket and he wants that money. Davis Grubb's haunting Gothic masterpiece flows through the rural Depression-era landscape with all the lyrical magic of a fairytale as John and his younger sister flee their malevolent hunter to a terrifying end.
