Graveside at Wilma’s memorial, an unknown woman in blue resurrects the last forty seven, shrouded years: the cruel father who loved alcohol and war more than he loved his wife or daughters, and his gritty clan where men drank and fought, and women prayed. Sandy and her only sister grew up like Miss Skeeter in The Help—raised by the
disdained others who were, in many ways, her true family.

In their pioneering oil-and-gas, white-gloved East Texas culture, Sandy and her sister were fatherless daughters severed from their long-forgotten shadow life. Prodded by Wilma Foster’s ghost, a collision of those two irreconcilable
worlds becomes inevitable...and redemption unlikely.