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All families have their dark secrets, secrets which, if they were revealed, would have dramatic and devastating consequences for those involved The Jacobs are no exception... or are they? For, not only is something terrible about to be revealed, but it is something that goes beyond anything they could have imagined. This dark, passionate and provocative story cleverly combines the theme of the tensions inherent in all relationships, with the capacity for darkness and greed that resides in all. In this case, they combine with disquieting and compelling results. --p. [4] of cover.

San Francisco's Bernal Heights is a hilltop village tucked away in the southern part of the city. Freeways and urban thoroughfares now bound the neighborhood, once defined by the swamps and creeks of the original Mexican land grant. The legacy of Potrero Viejo, or "old pasture," and the farms of the 19th and 20th centuries have developed into today's passion for the preservation of open space. From the 1860s legend of Widow O'Brien's cow to the 1970s fight that saved the hill's crest from development, Bernal residents have tirelessly guarded their environment. An unofficial coyote mascot...